On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 06:37:02PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 01:46:53PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >   Hi,
> > 
> > I'm wondering whenever it makes sense to switch seabios to time-based
> > releases, like many other projects do meanwhile.
> > 
> > For major releases one release per year looks reasonable to me, given
> > the low rate of changes we have.  1.11 was tagged in November 2017.
> > So maybe target 1.12 for November 2018 ?
> > 
> > For stable releases we could plan to create a release every one or two
> > months.  Skip in case there are no patches queued.  Or stick to the
> > current model which kind-of syncs stable releases to qemu releases
> > (which is roughly every four months).
> > 
> > Comments?
> 
> A release in November sounds good.  How about we target November 16th
> with a feature freeze on October 21st.

Sounds good to me.

> We can document a yearly release if that helps.  I think we'd need to
> be able to make a release out of cycle though if a situation warrants
> it.

Sure, we can make exceptions if needed.  The release model used to be
something along the lines "when we have enough changes that a new major
release makes sense".  But with the low rate of changes we have right
now "every November" looks more useful to me.

cheers,
  Gerd


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