Hi; I usually let people forget about releases for a month or so before bringing this topic up, but:
(1) do we want to call the next release 2.13, or something else? There's no particular reason to bump to 3.0 except some combination of * if we keep going like this we'll get up to 2.42, which starts to get silly * Linus-style "avoid being too predictable" * triskaidekaphobia but maybe we should anyway? (2) release timing: * usual schedule would give us a next release mid-to-late August * unless I can persuade Stefan to do the release management this cycle we might need to wind that in by a couple of weeks so it's definitely done by the middle of August, to avoid a clash with a personal commitment * so probably hardfreeze 10th July, softfreeze 3rd July (3) retrospective, lessons learned &c * please remember that if every single submaintainer submits a pull request on the morning of an RC, it is physically not possible for me to process all those pulls in time to tag the RC that day. We had several RCs which got delayed by a day because of this; please try to submit earlier rather than later... * provide your opinions here ? thanks -- PMM
