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Re: 2.26 timeline
On 06/01/2017 10:05 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jun 2017, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 01 June 2017 02:50 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>> I expected a freeze at July 1st and a release at the beginning of
>>> August. I don't have a problem with the new schedule, though.
>>
>> Oh I did not mean to propose a new schedule, I went by the fact that
>> previous freezes were in June and release scheduled towards mid-July,
>> eventually making it by the end of July.
>>
>> August release is fine for me too.
>
> I think we should keep to the cycle of freezes on 1 January and 1 July
> with releases (subject to any regressions, ABI issues etc. delaying the
> release) on 1 February and 1 August or as soon as possible thereafter.
> Which in practice means substantial changes should be posted for review
> well before 1 July, simply to allow time for revisions and for the review
> process to reach consensus.
Agreed.
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Cheers,
Carlos.