[llvm-dev] [3.8 Release] Schedule and call for testers

[Daniel Sanders via llvm-dev]

Sounds good to me. I'll do the usual mips packages.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hwennborg at google.com [mailto:hwennborg at google.com] On Behalf
> Of Hans Wennborg
> Sent: 11 December 2015 23:15
> To: llvm-dev; cfe-dev; lldb-dev at lists.llvm.org; openmp-dev at lists.llvm.org
> Cc: Dimitry Andric; Sebastian Dreßler; Renato Golin; Pavel Labath; Sylvestre
> Ledru; Ed Maste; Ben Pope; Daniel Sanders; Nikola Smiljanić; Brian Cain; Tom
> Stellard
> Subject: [3.8 Release] Schedule and call for testers
> 
> Dear everyone,
> 
> It's not quite time to start the 3.8 release process, but it's time to
> start planning.
> 
> Please let me know if you want to help with testing and building
> release binaries for your favourite platform. (If you were a tester on
> the previous release, you're cc'd on this email.)
> 
> I propose the following schedule for the 3.8 release:
> 
> - 13 January: Create 3.8 branch. Testing Phase 1: RC1 binaries built
> and tested, bugs fixed. Any almost-complete features need to be
> wrapped up or disabled on the branch ASAP, and definitely before this
> phase ends.
> 
> - 27 January: Testing Phase 2: RC2 binaries built and tested. Only
> critical bug fixes from now on. Further RCs published as we approach..
> 
> - 18 February: Cut the final release, build binaries, ship when ready.
> 
> Unless there are any objections, I'll post this on the web page.
> 
> Cheers,
> Hans