Release planning for 2.063

[Andrea Fontana]

On Monday, 25 February 2013 at 18:47:21 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> As there were complaints about not having a release schedule 
> for 2.062
> and releases being made suddenly without no prior announcement, 
> how
> about planning the 2.063 release now?
>
> 2.062 was released ~7 weeks after 2.061. I think targeting 6 
> weeks
> between 2.062 and 2.063 might be a good idea. The proposed days 
> are
> always Mondays. It doesn't really matter if the release is 
> exactly on
> that day but we should try to release in the week starting that 
> Monday.
>
> I propose to do the feature freeze next Monday (no more new 
> features
> after that). At the same time the first beta is released. Then 
> 2 weeks
> later first release candidate, one week later the next release
> candidate and one more week to the final release:
>
> Feature freeze     4 mar 2013
> Beta 1             4 mar 2013
> RC 1               18 mar 2013
> RC 2               25 mar 2013
> Final release      1 apr 2013
>
>
>
> If we decide to do minor releases after that release the dates 
> could
> look like this:
>
> 2.063.1
> RC 1 	       5 apr 2013
> RC 2 	       10 apr 2013
> Final release  15 apr 2013 (2 weeks after 2.063.0)
>
> 2.063.2
> RC 1           19 apr 2013
> RC 2           24 apr 2013
> Final release  29 apr 2013  (2 weeks after 2.063.1)
>                             (and 2 weeks before 2.064.0)
>
>
> A long term release plan could then look like this:
> http://wiki.dlang.org/User:Jpf/Release_Schedule
>
>
> Let's also try to switch to the new release process completely. 
> As the
> staging branch was criticized a lot and had only minor benefits 
> I
> updated the wiki page to remove the concept of the staging 
> branch.
> Most things stay the same, some get simpler. (If it's 
> considered rude
> to just edit the wiki page or if we want to keep staging branch 
> I'm
> sorry, just revert my changes)
>
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Development_and_Release_Process
>
> This would mean the next step is to create the 2.063 branch next
> Monday:
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Development_and_Release_Process#Preparing_a_new_major_release


April, 1st sounds like a joke :)