Hi, Rutherther <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi Noé, > > first of all thank you for your initiative! > > Noé Lopez <[email protected]> writes: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> As the summer vacations are in full swing, I would like to take some >> (late) advance on the process for the next release team. >> >> The release would be worked on from mid-September to the end of >> November (see annex). >> >> Given this timing, who would like to volunteer? >> >> Last time we talked about this, I noted: >> * Release Manager >> * Jelle Licht? >> * Efraim (returning) >> * Members >> * Rutherther (depending on timing) > > I will try to make as much time as possible to help as part of the > release team. I will however not have as much time as I did last year I > am afraid. I'd love to try my hand at this as previously mentioned. >> Have a nice day, >> Noé >> >> Annex: release timing >> >> In the original GCD, it was planned that a release was done for every >> June, this is of course not realistic given the timing of the previous >> release. However we should not wait until next year either. >> >> Members of the previous release team have improved the process[1] for >> the next team, so that it may take less time and that it is easier. >> >> With this in mind, I think it is fair to aim for a ~10 week release >> cycle. As for the exact timing, it is best if it is completely done by >> the december holidays. > > This sounds ambitious on one hand, but I think if one starts early with > stuff like trying if make dist works (it did not last release and we had > to do some late changes to fix stuff like that) and so on, it should be > fine. And monitoring of something did not get broken. I do have about 8 days of (off-line) planned absences during week 2/3 in the projected timeline, so ideally we can get the ball rolling before that. > I have previously made some issues I envisioned to do until the next > release, they are mostly assigned to me on codeberg. Those would improve > the releases, but they are not strictly necessary. > >> >> [1] https://codeberg.org/guix/release-planning/pulls > > And am still pending to do more improvements, I will try to make time > very soon. KR, - Jelle
