[llvm-dev] [Openmp-dev] RFC: Upcoming release schedules and creating a formal schedule for future releases

[Hans Wennborg via llvm-dev]

This sounds good to me (maybe spell out roughly what date 2.0.0-rc1
would be to make it easier to get an overview).

Thanks,
Hans

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 5:33 AM Tom Stellard via Openmp-dev
<openmp-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to give an update on the status of the LLVM 11 and LLVM 12
> releases.  11.0.1-final is expected to be tagged this week, along with
> 11.1.0-rc1.  Unfortunately, we had an ABI regression in libclang.so
> between LLVM 10 and LLVM 11, so we need to do an 11.1.0 release to
> correct this.  This happened one other time where we had to bump the
> minor version to correct an ABI breakage.  So, LLVM 11.0.1 libclang will
> be ABI compatible with LLVM 11, and LLVM 11.1.0 libclang will be ABI
> compatible  with LLVM != 11.
>
> For LLVM 12 the proposed branch date is Jan 26.  I'm hoping we will have
> the 2 LLVM 11.x releases done before that.
>
> In addition to all this, I would like to propose an official
> week-of-the-year based release schedule that we can use for all future
> releases.  What I'm proposing is not really any different in terms of
> dates from what we've been doing for the last several years.  My main
> goal is just to get this documented so it's clear to the community and
> the release managers what the expectations are.  Here is the proposed
> scheduled:
>
> 1.0.0-rc1   4th Tue in January
> 1.0.0-rc2   + 4 Weeks
> 1.0.0-final + 2 Weeks  (10th Tuesday ~mar 9)
> 1.0.1-rc1   + 4 Weeks
> 1.0.1-rc2   + 4 Weeks
> 1.0.1-final + 2 Weeks  (20th Tuesday ~may 18)
>
> 2.0.0-rc1   + 10 Weeks (+26 Weeks From 1.0.0-rc1)
> 2.0.0-rc2   +  4 Weeks
> 2.0.0-final +  2 weeks (36th Tuesday ~sep 7)
> 2.0.1-rc1   +  4 weeks
> 2.0.1-rc2   +  4 weeks
> 2.0.1-final +  2 weeks (46th Tuesday ~nov 16
>
> The release branches will be created on the same day as -rc1.
>
> If there are no objections to this, I will add it to the documentation
> next week.
>
> -Tom
>
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