[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] LLVM 3.7 release plan and call for testers

[Hans Wennborg]

Hi Pavel,

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 12:38 AM, Pavel Labath <labath at google.com> wrote:
> I'd like to help with the lldb release process on the linux platform,
> but I'm kinda new to this, so I would appreciate if you could explain
> it to me what would this involve.

The main objective is to make sure everything compiles and works in
the released version of the code, so checking out and testing the code
once we've branched, filing bugs and trying to get them fixed is
basically what the release is all about.

For Clang and the main llvm libraries, we provide pre-built binaries
in the release, built with the utils/release/test-release.sh script. I
don't know if it would be practical to do this for lldb as well.

 - Hans

> On 24 June 2015 at 01:08, Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org> wrote:
>> +lldb-dev, which I should have included in the first place.
>>
>> lldb hasn't been a major part of the release process before. There are
>> no pre-built binaries, and I don't think it has seen much testing in
>> previous releases.
>>
>> However, it still gets a release branch and tags, and the source is
>> part of the release. I'm hoping there are folks willing to test it and
>> make sure the release version of lldb works nicely with the release
>> version of llvm, etc.
>>
>>  - Hans
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org> wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> Please let me know if you'd like to help providing binaries and
>>> testing for your favourite platform. If you were a tester on the
>>> previous release, I've bcc'd you on this email.
>>>
>>> I propose this schedule for the 3.7 release:
>>>
>>> - 14 July 2015: Create the release branch.
>>>
>>> - 14 July -- 21 July: Testing Phase I. RC1 binaries are built and tested.
>>>
>>> - 22 July -- 29 July: Fix bugs from Testing Phase I. All new features
>>> for the release should be complete. Incomplete features need to be
>>> turned off by default.
>>>
>>> - 30 July -- 6 August: Testing Phase I. RC2 binaries are built and tested.
>>>
>>> - 7 August - 14 August: Fix bugs from Testing Phase II. Only critical
>>> bug fixes are accepted.
>>>
>>> - 21 August: Release 3.7.0.
>>>
>>> Unless there are any objections, I will post this on the web page soon.
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