intrigeri: > Hi, > > this time of the year again! Mozilla published their release schedule > for 2018, so we can now decide which releases will be major, and which > ones will be bugfix-only. Once this is done our release managers will > organize their shifts.
Thanks for taking the initiative for this! > Proposal: > > * 2017-09-26: Release 3.2 (Firefox 52.4) — anonym is the RM > > Major release. > > * 2017-11-14: Release 3.3 (Firefox 52.5) > > Bugfix release. > > * 2018-01-16: Release 3.4 (Firefox 52.6) > > Bugfix release: yes, the second in a row. Rationale: reset the > major/bugfix cycle so that the June release can be a major one, > take December holiday into account, and free some time to work on > major sponsor deliverables & other roadmap goals. Ack, I very much agree with this. > * 2018-03-06: Release x.y (Firefox 52.7) > > Major release (possibly the first Buster-based Tails). > > * 2018-05-01: Release x.y (Firefox 52.8) > > Bugfix release. > > * 2018-06-26: Release x.y (Firefox 59.2) > > Major release: we're switching to a major new version of Firefox > + let's deliver our pre-summer work to users. > > * 2018-08-21: Release x.y (Firefox 59.3) > > Bugfix release: doing 2 major releases in a row is too much work, > especially during Northern hemisphere summer. > > But this is the last release before the end of our contract with > SponsorW! So either SponsorW work is fully completed in time for > the June 26 release, or we'll have to put out a beta version in > August, that includes the final version of that work, which will > be released in stable Tails in October. So much for the "let's try to avoid having grant deadlines around the end of summer" attempt... :) [Note: this is not a real disappointment, just ] If the beta workaround is cool, this sounds perfect. > * 2018-10-16: Release x.y (Firefox 59.4) > > Major release. > > * 2018-11-27: Release x.y (Firefox 59.5) > > Bugfix release. > > Thoughts? LGTM! Cheers! _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
