On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 1:55 PM Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > For future 2-month releases, I think that on the branch date, we > > should branch and immediately make -rc1 tarballs. > > > > Then the community can test, report bugs/showstoppers, and those will > > be fixed on master and backported to the branch. > > > > When it seems there are no more showstoppers, make -rc2 tarballs, let > > test a few more days. If no showstoppers this time, re-brand it as the > > final release. > > That sounds perfect. This release was our first experiment. I think we > should get it out the door and start thinking about how we can improve > the release process for the June release. > > I think we owe Abdelatif thanks. What has happened could not have > happened without his contribution. There was no one else standing up to > do this job and Abdelatif stepped in and did it. Their should be no > criticisms because none of us are in a place where we can "cast the > first stones" because we did not do the work. Rather, we should offer > our thanks. Suggestions for improvement are welcome and if you want to > be helpful, they should be included in a release procedure document. I agree! A very BIG thanks to Abdelatif!! Cheers, Nathan
