Re: 3.13 schedule draft

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
> I created https://wiki.gnome.org/AndreKlapper/Sched1 as a release
> schedule proposal.
> (The script doesn't set the week numbers correctly for the GUADEC item,
> I'll fix that manually once we have a schedule agreed on. Meh, we
> haven't announced the new proposals period yet.)
>
>
> I reduced the number of releases (no .6 and no .92) so we'd create
> releases only every four weeks, then 2-3-1 (also keeping in mind to not
> have releases around GUADEC when people travel).
> Would like to hear if that's good or not when it comes to getting
> feedback and testing from distros packaging our unstable releases.
>
> I also decoupled The Freeze from having a release at the same time, with
> the naive idea that this would leave us a week to sort out API
> incompatibilites. This hasn't happened lately though so might be rather
> hypothetical.
>
> And should 3.14.1 be one week later, because Oct 13 is too close to
> Columbus Day and Boston/Montreal summit?
>
> So: Good? Bad? "andre, put one more release in there and have The Freeze
> together with a release"?

I would like a little time for the QA team to contact extension
developers to update their extensiosn for 3.14 a week before release.
 We have not agreed yet in QA whether we are going to do that
specifically, but it's one of the things that I want QA to do as part
of making the release work well for those who try it.

I'm hoping most of this is temporary after gnome-shell code base
stabilizes ehough that there isn't so many extensions that break.
Still they need to be given a chance and also we should update our
agreement with extension writers that it is okay to modify code prioir
to a release to make it work for the next release.

sri

> andre
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