Proposal: no more alphas/betas for Wayland releases

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Wed, 21 May 2025 11:49:34 +0200
Jonas Ådahl <jadahl at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 05:43:09AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM Simon Ser <contact at emersion.fr> wrote:  
> > >
> > > I would suggest to drop the alphas/betas from the release process, ie.
> > > go straight to RC1. The process would then continue as usual, with
> > > weekly RCs. As a release manager this would help reduce the load. This
> > > is also what I've been doing for Sway and wlroots for a very long time.

...

> > 
> > That said, going straight to RCs for libwayland itself seems
> > reasonable. But, do we even need those? Could we go straight to
> > release since the churn is so low?  
> 
> I think it's better to start with skipping alpha/beta for now, so that
> there is at least *some* testing before things end up in a release. This
> is different from wayland-protocols, since they don't end up causing any
> actual changes on people's system until servers and clients make use of
> and ship them.

I agree with Jonas, for what little I'm worth for this question
nowadays.


Thanks,
pq
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