On 7 June 2016 at 20:15, Michael Roth <mdr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > Quoting Peter Maydell (2016-06-07 13:45:06) >> But I think the real problem with a schedule which expects a >> release at the tail end of August is that we then only have >> three and a half months left til mid-December which is in >> practice the latest we want to do a release given holidays. >> So we can only avoid the short dev period this time round by >> having a short one next time instead. >> >> Maybe we could have +1 week rather than +0 or +2 (so softfreeze >> 28 June, rc0 19 July, release 16 August), as you suggest. That's >> currently feeling like the best compromise to me. > > Yah, I think I agree. We'll have to make up the 2 weeks lost at some > point, but spreading it out avoids us finding ourselves in a similar > situation next release. Seems like maybe there may be more work > being targetted for 2.8 as well.
OK. I have updated 2.7 with the +1week dates (and removed the note about them being tentative), so let's go with that. thanks -- PMM
