On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 01:38:22PM -0700, Hans Wennborg via llvm-dev wrote: > Hello everyone, > > It's time to start planning for the 3.9 release. > > Please let me know if you'd like to help providing binaries and > testing for your favourite platform. > > I propose the following schedule: > > - 18 July: Create the release branch; build and test RC1 soon thereafter. > > - 1 August: Tag, build and test RC2. Any unfinished features need to > be turned off by now. As we get closer to the release, the bar for > merging patches rises. > > - 22 August: Tag 3.9.0-final. The release ships when binaries are ready. > > > Also, I have three more questions for the community: > > 1) Right after the branch, the version number of the trunk will be > incremented. I assume this means bumping the major version number, > taking us to 4.0? IIUC, that's what happened after 1.9 and 2.9. >
The 4.1 release gives us the opportunity to drop support for 3.x bitcode formats, so I don't think we should move to 4.x until we have older bitcode features that we really want to drop. There should probably be a separate discussion thread about this. -Tom > 2) Following up on the May thread about the release process [1], I'd > like to make the schedule we've followed for the last few years more > official by posting somewhere on the web page that we're committed to > shipping two major releases per year: one in early March (branching > mid-January), and one early September (branching mid-July), usually > with one (or sometimes two) "dot" releases in between. > > 3) Another follow-up from that thread: it's usually the same people > who test the releases for their platform. Rather than asking everyone > each time, I'd like to make a list of who's responsible for each > platform and put that on the web page. Testers can still sign-up or > resign as they like, of course. Would you testers be OK with this? > This is a great idea. -Tom > Let me know what you think. > > Cheers, > Hans > > > [1]. http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-May/099541.html > _______________________________________________ > LLVM Developers mailing list > llvm-...@lists.llvm.org > http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev _______________________________________________ lldb-dev mailing list lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev
