On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 17:09, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > > Here's my suggestion for release schedule dates for 7.0: > > 2021-12-14 Beginning of development phase > 2022-03-08 Soft feature freeze. Only bug fixes after this point. > All feature changes must be already in a sub maintainer > tree and all pull requests from submaintainers must have > been sent to the list by this date. > 2022-03-15 Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0 > 2022-03-22 Tag rc1 > 2022-03-29 Tag rc2 > 2022-04-05 Tag rc3 > 2022-04-12 Release; or tag rc4 if needed > 2022-04-19 Release if we needed an rc4 > > Any opinions/suggested tweaks? > > Easter this year is April 15-18th, which is slightly awkwardly > between the theoretical release day and the more probable > release-if-we-tag-rc4 day. But we can't really bring it forward > as softfreeze is already only 2 weeks from now... We could > move everything later by a week if we wanted more time before > softfreeze, at the cost of having Easter fall in a probably > more active part of the release cycle.
No complaints, so we'll go with this. -- PMM
