Re: Release schedule change affects GSoC projects

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

Hi,

On Mon, 2017-05-15 at 13:26 +0200, Carlos Soriano wrote:
> I just noticed https://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2017-Marc
> h/msg00053.html, that changes Aug 18 to Aug 7 the UI freeze, that
> means almost two weeks earlier.
>
> The previous schedule (Aug 18) was already a little difficult for our
> GSoC projects, since students have the official schedule until 29
> August. So we were pushing in the last weeks to try to make the
> merges as soon as possible, but relying on exceptions.

UI freeze has always been around this time plus one week (I'm not sure
where you take the "Aug 18" from - last year's freeze was August 15).

> However, the new schedule makes very difficult to make UI projects
> for GSoC and being included in the release, that as you might know
> it's quite important for both the students to have their code in
> master and for maintainers to have the projects in the release
> itself.
>
> Could it be possible to reeschedule one week more again (at least)?

I would not oppose moving "The Freeze" && 3.25.90 release to August
14th. I'd oppose making the entire release schedule (=3.26.0 release) a
week longer though, as distributions need to rely on plans.

> If not, would be the release team open for UI exceptions late on the
> freeze cycle for those projects doing GSoC?

Cheers,
andre
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