On Thu, 26 Sept 2024 at 16:20, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecke...@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 26.09.2024 at 14:23, Tim Düsterhus wrote: > > <snip> > > Christoph > Hello everyone! I agree with the general sentiment that alpha/beta/rc should be followed in their canonical form: - Alpha - API/ABI gets broken, new stuff gets introduced, big implementations happen - Beta - new big additions are not allowed any more and introduced feature stabilisation and bugfixing occurs (this is where you polish implementations) and general feature freeze goes into effect - RC - final testing, bugfixing and eventually release. But I think the struggle we have with RFC's coming late and being a time crunch is the timing of the release - November. The big problem is that the vast majority of development and voting and RFC ironing out happens during summer when a lot of people are on vacations, travel and in general are not here. So come September/October - all hell breaks loose. And that happens every single year. So while clarifying the alpha/beta/rc should be done, I think we should move the general minor/major version releases to sometime in February/March to give solid 6 months to work through things and give people ability to start RFC's and finish them while they are not under the pressure of summer vacations/travel/etc. -- Arvīds Godjuks +371 26 851 664 arvids.godj...@gmail.com Telegram: @psihius https://t.me/psihius
