[llvm-dev] [cfe-dev] [3.9 Release] Release plan and call for testers

[Renato Golin via llvm-dev]

On 12 June 2016 at 13:27, Dimitry Andric via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>> 1) Right after the branch, the version number of the trunk will be
>> incremented. I assume this means bumping the major version number,
>> taking us to 4.0? IIUC, that's what happened after 1.9 and 2.9.
>
> 4.0.  Since gcc is already at 7.0, we need to catch up! ;-)

Or, we can do like ARM and go from 3 straight to 7! :)


>> 2) Following up on the May thread about the release process [1], I'd
>> like to make the schedule we've followed for the last few years more
>> official by posting somewhere on the web page that we're committed to
>> shipping two major releases per year: one in early March (branching
>> mid-January), and one early September (branching mid-July), usually
>> with one (or sometimes two) "dot" releases in between.
>
> Having predictable release schedules is nice.  If everybody knows the
> tree should be in fairly good shape at the point of branching, any heavy
> refactoring can be postponed until after such branching (or preferably,
> until after the actual release).

Yup, +1 for a webpage with all this, in addition to the existing
snippet on the homepage.


>> 3) Another follow-up from that thread: it's usually the same people
>> who test the releases for their platform. Rather than asking everyone
>> each time, I'd like to make a list of who's responsible for each
>> platform and put that on the web page. Testers can still sign-up or
>> resign as they like, of course. Would you testers be OK with this?
>
> You can put me up for the FreeBSD platform, obviously.

And me for ARM and AArch64.

cheers,
--renato