On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 05:22:13PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: > > On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 10:34:29AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> Last but not least: who wants to be the timekeeper? The position mostly > >> consists in firmly reminding people of the schedule. :-) > > > > I tried to do it this time around, but we kept finding bugs and > > experiencing build failures that we couldn't ignore. > > My thought was that fixing specific dates might help get everyone > psychologically prepared and ready to focus on stabilizing the branch > when the time comes.
Agreed, we should try to stick to your suggested schedule this time. I'm not trying to discourage anyone :) Just sharing my experience of what sort of problems we can expect, for those who haven't paid close attention to a core-updates cycle before.
