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On 05/12/2016 03:31 PM, Sawyer X wrote: > Hi everyone, > > As soon as the Perl release cycle enters a freeze, people start > committing their work in branches awaiting a merge. As blead gets > colder, hitting a full freeze, these start piling. Once 5.25.0 is out, > these are merged in, awaiting 5.25.1. > > Since each development release is done once a month, and 5.25.0 was done > at the beginning of the month, it effectively means about a month and a > half for these to wait. Generally this would be fine, except it's the > first release past the freeze, meaning it's likely to collect a lot of > patches. > > To accommodate this larger-than-usual set of changes, Matthew suggested > putting out 5.25.1 a bit earlier, on the 20th this month. I think that's > a good idea. What does that mean? > > * On May 20th I will release 5.25.1, allowing all of these changes more > smoking time. > * Every release date stays the same, except it's the next version. > Instead of releasing 5.25.1 on June 20th, Matthew will release 5.25.2. > The stable release date stays the same as well. > * The states of freezing will all move one version forward. Instead of > "Contentious changes freeze" starting at 5.25.7, it will be start at > 5.25.8. The full freeze will begin at 5.25.10 instead of 5.25.9. > > If you have any objections, please let me/us know. Otherwise, 5.25.1 > will be out in a week and a day on the 20th. > > This is also a small reminder that blead is waiting for all your > commits. Bring it this week and you'll get longer smoking. > > Thanks, > Sawyer. > Note that 5.25.1 is supposedly blocked from being released until the 5 tickets still open here are fixed: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127731Thread Previous | Thread Next