On 04/07/2014 09:14 AM, Eric Anholt wrote: > 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.
What's the point of having an RC is that is complete garbage? If you can explain that to me, I will do the work of creating it. Otherwise, I'll just skip the pointless busywork kthanks.
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