[llvm-dev] [Release-testers] [4.0 Release] Schedule and call for testers

Hans Wennborg via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Tue Dec 6 08:54:16 PST 2016


It's not atomic, but I specify a specific revision when creating the
branch, across all projects, so it has the same effect.

When creating tags on the branch I just create it on tip-of-tree since
the branch is low traffic.

Does that address your concerns?

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 3:31 AM, NAKAMURA Takumi <geek4civic at gmail.com> wrote:
> I hope you could branch and tag to projects atomically. Are you able?
>
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 3:26 AM Hans Wennborg via Release-testers
> <release-testers at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>
>> Dear everyone,
>>
>> There's still plenty of time left, but I'd like to get the schedule
>> set before folks start disappearing for the holidays.
>>
>> Note that this release will also switch us to the new versioning
>> scheme where the major version is incremented for each major release
>> (i.e., when the 4.0 branch is created, trunk will become 5.0).
>>
>> If you'd like to help providing binaries and testing for your
>> favourite platform, please subscribe to the release-testers mailing
>> list [1].
>>
>> I propose the following schedule for the 4.0 release:
>>
>> - 12 January 2017: Create the 4.0 branch. RC1 tagged soon thereafter.
>>
>> - 1 February: Tag RC2. All lose ends should have been tied up by now.
>>
>> - 21 February: Final tag. Binaries and release announcement a few days
>> later.
>>
>> Unless there are any objections, I'll post this on the web page soon.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Hans
>>
>>
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