I think the next_stable branch should be released now. I am not aware of any issue that would prevent a release.
I will do some more tests with production code this weekend to ensure there is no anything I have missed. On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 9:21 AM Robert Middleton <rmiddle...@apache.org> wrote: > With some fixes that have been accomplished over the past few weeks, > we now have only 1-2 issues in JIRA that would need to be finished for > a release, and I think both of those are effectively done at this > point. > > I'm pretty happy with where things are at the moment - there's always > more tweaking that can be done, but I can't think of anything major > that needs to be done that could be done within a reasonable > timeframe. The major thing that was done for the next release was to > make things ABI stable, so as long as we commit to that going > forward(and only breaking it with proper versioning) we should be > good. > > The last time we talked about this Tobias Frost said that the > soft-freeze for Debian is the 12th of January[1], so after that point > an updated library wouldn't make it into Debian. I would like to get > this version into Debian if possible(as that is the distribution I > use), but that depends on Tobias' availability. > > With that in mind, should we do a release in the immediate > future(within the next ~7 days), or should we wait a bit for some more > tweaking and/or features? > > -Robert Middleton > > [1]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/zg150rbkdkzgog1bnd403052818nncs7 >
