Re: 3.33/3.34 schedule draft: questions

[mcatanzaro gnome org]

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 3:34 AM, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
> I've put up a draft schedule at
> https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointThirtythree and in
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/releng/commit/6ff90169cc36f0793beaf27fde629cc7118eee6f
>
> Problem: GUADEC is very late (end of August) and 3.34 release should 
> be
> in early September. On the other hand, anyone can branch gnome-3-34
> from master early and still hack away on master?
>
> Not sure how many people will be happy to create .92 tarballs while
> being at GUADEC (and someone to do the release)? If you think it's no
> problem to have the .92 at GUADEC then I'm happy to make the hardcode
> freeze again only one week (currently two weeks) and have a .4 release
> again (I currently went only for 3 unstable releases before .90 comes)

I recommend we avoid having any sort of release week during GUADEC, so 
glad your schedule avoids that. But having two weeks between .92 and 
the final release doesn't seem great, either. And code freeze during 
GUADEC seems likely to, er, stress our collective willpower.

We could move the 3.34.0 release back one week, to September 11. Then 
we could have:

* 3.33.90: August 5-7
* 3.33.91: August 19-21
* GUADEC: August 23-28
* 3.33.92: September 2-4
* 3.34.0: September 9-11

That's one week harder for Ubuntu, but it avoids any conflict with 
GUADEC, and is actually more in line with our traditional schedule. (I 
believe we traditionally targeted the third week of the month.) 
Targeting the first week of March and September is definitely better 
for Ubuntu and Fedora, and I hope we can try to do that again in the 
future (we did for 3.30 but not for 3.32), but due to GUADEC it just 
doesn't work well for 3.34.

Michael