Re: Changes: GNOME 3.35/3.36 release schedule

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2019-09-12 at 08:19 -0500, mcatanzaro gnome org wrote:
> 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.)

This is very important for the maintainers of libraries that live in
the GNOME runtime. Do we have a full list of those? What happens if
there are security issues that crop up in the meanwhile?