On Wednesday, January 17, 2018 4:00:26 AM PST Nicolai Hähnle wrote: > On 17.01.2018 01:23, Jordan Justen wrote: > > On 2018-01-16 13:57:37, Kenneth Graunke wrote: > >> On Tuesday, January 16, 2018 11:18:13 AM PST Emil Velikov wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> As you've know the Mesa 18.0.0 release plan has been available for a while > >>> on the mesa3d.org website [1]. > >>> > >>> In case you've missed it here it is: > >>> > >>> Jan 19 2018 - Feature freeze/Release candidate 1 > >>> Jan 26 2018 - Release candidate 2 > >>> Feb 02 2018 - Release candidate 3 > >>> Feb 09 2018 - Release candidate 4/final release > >>> > >>> This gives us half a week until the branch point. > >>> > >>> As this is shorter notice than usual, I'm open to adjusting the schedule > >>> by a > >>> week. Do let me know ASAP, if we should go that route. > >>> > >>> As always - do list features/sets that you'd like to see merged. Thus we > >>> can > >>> all have a clear idea and prioritise accordingly. > >>> > >>> Thanks > >>> Emil > >>> > >>> [1] https://www.mesa3d.org/release-calendar.html > >> > >> A few observations and some questions... > >> > >> Although 17.3 was branched in late October, 17.3.0 wasn't released until > >> December 8th - about 6 weeks ago. 17.3.x also shipped with a pretty > >> catastrophic DRI3 bug that caused tons of applications to segfault, > >> which was fixed by 897c54d522ab960a879b763a15e489f630c491ee, but that > >> hasn't yet made it into a shipping 17.3.x release. Arguably, I think > >> 17.3.3 is going to be the first usable 17.3.x release. > >> > >> So...is it too early to branch for 18.0? > >> > >> - Have distros picked up 17.3.x yet? > >> - Is there anything in master that people are excited about shipping? > >> - There are about 2 months of work since the 17.3.x branch point > >> (half of October, all of November, about half of December because > >> so many people were on holidays). > >> > >> I'm wondering if a mid-February branch point and March release would > >> make more sense, just to space them out. > > > > Related to this, what are the cutoffs for upcoming distro releases? > > > > I'm not sure for Fedora 28. Maybe Beta Freeze on March 6? > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/28/Schedule > > > > It looks like March 1st for Ubuntu 18.04. > > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseSchedule > > To be honest, I'm a fan of the predictable time-based releases and would > rather not do ad-hoc monkeying around with schedules as a matter of > principle. With the dates above and a conservative approach (there may > be additional RCs...), we don't have much wiggle room anyway.
Marek said as much on IRC as well. It sounds like we should just go ahead, and 18.0 will be a fairly boring but hopefully solid release. --Ken
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