Re: Changes: GNOME 3.35/3.36 release schedule

[mcatanzaro gnome org]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 2:45 AM, Milan Crha via desktop-devel-list 
<desktop-devel-list gnome org> wrote:
> As a real life example, I skipped 3.32.5 this year, because there was
> no code change in the stable branch with which the users could 
> benefit.
> The late stables are for bug fixes, from my point of view.

I wondered about how to best present that on the schedule.

We don't actually expect you to release tarballs past 3.34.0 unless you 
have actual need to do so (bugfixes that need released). These are more 
informational deadlines so that you know when our runtime updates will 
occur.

E.g. say you release 3.34.0 on time, then by some magic nobody reports 
any bugs in evolution-data-server for four months. (Wouldn't that be 
nice?) We make it to February and finally you have some fixes that you 
want to release. If you release your 3.34.1 by the tarball deadline for 
3.34.5, then your 3.34.1 will make it into the 3.34.5 runtime update 
during the next week. Otherwise it might wait six weeks until the 
3.34.6 runtime update. (We'll be doing 3.34 releases until March next 
year, because the runtime will be supported for one year. This schedule 
only shows the first half of the 3.34 lifetime.)

Michael