Ian Romanick <i...@freedesktop.org> writes: > On 04/04/2014 05:52 PM, Matt Turner wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Ian Romanick <i...@freedesktop.org> wrote: >>> Fast forwarding 3 months from the 10.1 release (March 4th, planned for >>> February 28th) is May 30th. I'd like to propose the following set of dates: >>> >>> May 2nd: Feature freeze / 10.2 branch created. >>> >>> May 16th: RC1 >> >> Same comment as last time. It's not clear to me that we need a week >> between the branch and RC1. We're not going to get users testing the >> branch until there's an RC that distros can offer. > > The thinking behind having some gap is that a lot of people don't change > from feature work to bug fixing until the branch is made. There are > usually a bunch of bug fixes landed right after the branch is made... > there's also often a bunch of... chaos right before the branch is made. > Having an RC that doesn't build, has lot of known bugs, etc is useless. > Having a time gap between features landing and making RC1 allows things > to settle down a bit. > > I thought your complaint before was that a week wasn't long enough. > That's why I bumped it to two weeks this time. I guess I must have > misunderstood the concern.
FWIW, I also don't see the point in having the branch but no RC.
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