On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 04:07:59PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 12:24:45PM +0000, Adam Barratt wrote: >>Hi Steve, >> >>On Fri, 2021-03-19 at 11:42 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> Houston, we have a problem. I know that you've announced the 27th for >>> the point release, but we're not going to have a new shim ready for >>> then. >>> >>> We've been hard at work testing and fixing things for the last couple >>> of weeks, but it's been slow going. We've *just* had a 15.3-rc3 >>> release candidate published last night. Even if that all looks OK and >>> we don't find any more bugs in testing (fingers crossed!), we're not >>> going to have a proper 15.3 release ready to go for >>> review/testing/signing in time for it to make it into a buster point >>> release next weekend. >> >>Thanks for the update. :-( >> >>Do you have a sense of when things _might_ be ready? Depending on >>timings it might be worth us getting the bulk of 10.9 out of the way >>and working out what to do about shim later on. > >At this point, I do not have a lot of confidence to pick a reliable >substitute date. Once we have a 15.3 release *done*, I'm thinking >adding a couple of weeks after that point is probably the most >sensible thing we can do. That's enough notice for the teams, I hope? >And it will be enough time to get stuff reviewed and signed. I'll be >one of the people driving the review process, and the reviews for this >round should be minimal - we'll be using a totally vanilla new release >with no local patches. > >I'll keep you updated as soon as i have any news.
In fact, how about: we *could* go ahead with the 10.9 point release as already planned, and expect to do a 10.10 a couple of weeks later with basically *just* the shim/SB changes? I'm OK to go with that option if that's our preferred route as a group. (Obviously, either of these options will be eating into time for fixing things for a Bullseye release.) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back
