On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 05:11:31AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > I'd like to suggest a possible solution: Go back to the old way, > and announce the branch date in advance (with a reasonable > lead time, not just a day or so, which would change nothing. > Reasonable here is likely to be something like a month.)
Yes, I'd like to do that. I was trying to come up with an official "must have" feature list, but by now most of what I would have put there already made it into -current. The only thing that is still open and not exactly a chekpoint feature is my personal perception that the aarch64 port (which will have its debut with 9.0) could use a small bit of more stability. Due to lack of something better my simple metric would be: number of ATF failures <= numer of ATF failures on e.g. alpha or sparc64, and additionaly (quite egoistic) a fully working XFce4 setup on my pinebook ;-) After having everything in place, releng would pick some arbitrary date and if a that point all builds are green, create the branch. This date should be published as early as possible, with a request to developers NOT to rush in things shortly before the deadline. Martin
