[LLVMdev] [3.5 Release] Tentative Schedule

[Bill Wendling]

Sure that sounds fine.

-bw

On Jul 14, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Tom Stellard <tom at stellard.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:59:03AM -0700, Bill Wendling wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I’m sorry for the late announcement. Here’s a tentative schedule for the 3.5 release.
>> 
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> I would like to propose a slight change to the release process.  Instead
> of naming the release tag directory RELEASE_XY, it would be better to
> use RELEASE_XYZ to make it easier to support dot releases in the various
> release scripts.  Here is a documentation patch for the proposed change:
> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20140616/221946.html
> 
> If there are no objections to this, then I will create aliases for the
> 3.4.2 tags using this new naming convention and then update the release
> scripts. I think we will want to use 3.4.2 as the baseline when we check
> 3.5 for regressions, since in theory it has less bugs than 3.4.0
> 
> -Tom
> 
> 
>> July 21:       Branch for 3.5 release.
>> 
>> - All features should be near completion. Changes to complete existing features will be accepted until the end of testing phase I. But they should *not* be major (i.e., large) changes. If they are, they may be rejected.
>> 
>> July 21-27:    Testing Phase I.
>> 
>> - Binaries will be available for general testing.
>> 
>> July 28-Aug 3: Fix bugs from Testing Phase I.
>> 
>> - At this point, all features should be complete. Any features which aren’t need to be turned off by default.
>> 
>> Aug 4-10:      Testing Phase II.
>> 
>> - Only critical bug fixes accepted. Binaries will be available for general testing.
>> 
>> Aug 11-17:     Fix bugs from Testing Phase II.
>> 
>> - The bugs fixed here are release blockers. Ideally, we won’t need a Testing Phase III.
>> 
>> Aug 25:        3.5 RELEASE! :-)
>> 
>> Share and enjoy!
>> -bw
>> 
>> 
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