18/10/2018 14:50, Mcnamara, John: > Hi, > > There are two constraints within the 19.02 release timeframe this year: > > * Christmas/New Year's holidays > * Chinese Spring Festival Holiday 4th-10th February (with some people out > the week before as well). Note this is much earlier than in previous years. > > Since the majority of the testing is done by the Intel team in China we > would need to complete all testing before the end of January. Working back > from this and avoiding having people work over Christmas week we would have > the following dates: > > * Proposal deadline Friday 23 November 2018 > * Merge deadline Friday 14 December 2018 > * RC1 release Friday 21 December 2018 > * RCx + Testing Friday 25 January 2019 > * Release Friday 1 February 2019 > > In order to meet these deadlines we would have to reduce the size/scope > of the release. > > So the proposal would be that 19.02 is a smaller release and that we would > prioritize 19.05 as a larger release. > > Note, this also means that the Proposal deadline in only about 1 month away > and that it may occur before the 18.11 is released. > > If there are major objections or people have better ideas on how to schedule > the release then let us know.
As discussed in release meeting today, we will move the proposal deadline by few days (Thursday 29th) to make it happen after 18.11 release.
