Re: More proposed release schedule changes

[Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org>]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 5:51 pm, Iain Lane <iain orangesquash org uk> 
wrote:
> any thoughts on why we might have quality
> issues with .0 releases or is it really mostly about the schedule?

I don't think it's *mostly* about schedule... it's mostly about lack of 
upstream QA. But schedule plays a significant role, too, especially 
since we rely so much on downstream QA that is only just now getting 
started, after we've entered our final code freeze.

Earlier testing of the beta releases in Ubuntu would definitely help a 
lot. The earlier we start testing .90, the better.

I guess the problem with my proposal is if you hope .1 to be released 
before Ubuntu beta freeze, that definitely won't be possible. (Then 
again, ideally Ubuntu beta would ship a month earlier with .90, and 
GNOME packages would be updated several times between then and the 
final release.) If we shift back two weeks, the .1 tarball deadline 
would be October 10, still leaving plenty of time to update to .1 
before Ubuntu final release if you're willing to do that...?

Michael