On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 03:15:58PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Considering that Easter is on April 16th, we'd probably want to have the > release before that date even in case of a slip. > > On the other hand, the Christmas / New Year break here means that we'll > have to make the development time 1-2 week shorter in practice. > > 2016-02-21 2.9 soft freeze > 2016-03-07 hard freeze / rc0 > 2016-03-28 rc3 (+3 weeks) > 2016-04-04 rc4 or release > 2016-04-11 release (if rc4) > > One possibility is to make soft freeze happen a few days later. > Peter/Stefan, how did the experiment go with the new rules for soft > freeze? Is it worth repeating it for 2.9 and would it make sense to > shorten soft freeze given the new rules?
I would shorten the soft freeze by 1 week. Overall the 2.8 release went smoothly. We got unlucky right at the end with a release blocker but otherwise it was fine. Stefan
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