On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Hans Wennborg <h...@chromium.org> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > It's time to start making plans for the 6.0.0 release. > > Following our regular schedule, the branch would occur about two weeks > into January, on Wednesday 17 January 2018, with the goal of shipping > early March. This is the schedule I would propose. > > However, one large consumer of the branch has asked if we could start > earlier this time, branching on 3 January instead (not moving the ship > date), to get a longer period for stabilization that syncs with their > internal process. > > While I'm hesitant to change the schedule because I think it's > important that it's predictable, there is a benefit of having large > users "in sync" with the upstream release branch, as that means more > people testing the same code. > > I will be out of the office the first weeks of January (and I'm > guessing other members of the community might be too), so while I > could get the branch started on the 3rd, it would be a kind of > "slow-start" of the process, but still allow those who want to start > testing and nominating merges to do so. > > Ultimately, it comes down to what the community prefers. Should we > stick to the regular schedule, or should we do the "slow-start" two > weeks early this time? > > Let me know what you think, especially those of you involved in the > release testing.
Since there wasn't really any opposition to the 3 January "slow start" suggestion, let's go with that. I propose the following schedule: 3 January 2018 - Branch point. Those who want can start testing and nominating merges. 17 January 2018 - Release Candidate 1 tag, testing of that starts. 7 February 2018 - Release Candidate 2, things should ideally look pretty good now 21 February 2018 - Final tag. (Typically this slips a bit; just try not to slip into March.) Unless there are any objections, I'll post this on the web page soon. Cheers, Hans _______________________________________________ lldb-dev mailing list lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev
