Many thanks! Got it, and I think this should be directly written.
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020, 16:05 Matt Caswell, <m...@openssl.org> wrote: > > > On 07/01/2020 13:00, Dmitry Belyavsky wrote: > > When does the feature freeze happen? > > I'm interested in publishing as much GOST support as possible. > > According to my proposal feature freeze would happen on release of > beta1, i.e. 2020-06-02. > > Matt > > > > > > On Tue, 7 Jan 2020, 14:13 Matt Caswell, <m...@openssl.org > > <mailto:m...@openssl.org>> wrote: > > > > Hi all > > > > Myself, Paul, Shane, Richard and Nicola had a conf call today to > discuss > > the outstanding tasks and effort required to get us to a final > release. > > > > We've previously said this about that timeline: > > > > "We are now not expecting code completion to occur until the end of > Q2 > > 2020 with a final release in early Q4 2020." > > (https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2019/11/07/3.0-update/) > > > > > > With that in mind we came up with the following proposal for a > release > > timetable which we think is a challenging but achievable timeline: > > > > alpha1, 2020-03-31: Basic functionality plus basic FIPS module > > alpha2, 2020-04-21: Complete external provider support > (serialization, > > support for new algs, support for providers which only include > > operations in a class) > > alpha3, 2020-05-21: Almost there (aiming to test the API completeness > > before beta1 freezes it) > > beta1, 2020-06-02: Code complete (API stable, feature freeze) > > betaN: Other beta TBD > > Final: 2020 early Q4 > > > > The idea here is to set some intermediate deadlines to focus > attention > > on the final remaining tasks, with a series of 3 alphas prior to the > > first beta release where each alpha release comes approximately > every 3 > > weeks. We can have some flexibility to adjust this timetable if we > think > > it is necessary (such as by including an additional alpha release if > > required). > > > > Please let me know your thoughts. This would probably need to go to > an > > OMC vote to get approved. > > > > Matt > > >