[RFC] Release schedule for X server 21.1

[Aaron Plattner]

Hi Povilas, thanks so much for driving this release! This schedule 
sounds fine to me. Unless you say otherwise, I'm going to consider the 
ABI frozen at this point and mark it as officially supported for the 
next NVIDIA driver release.

Sincerely,
Aaron

On 8/9/21 4:57 PM, Povilas Kanapickas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> According to my recent testing the master branch is in relatively good
> shape. There exist known bugs, but we can start planning the release anyway.
> 
> I would like to propose release schedule for Xserver 21.1.
> 
>   - 2021-08-16 - Driver ABI freeze
>   - 2021-08-30 - 21.1 RC 1
>   - every 2 weeks after that: a new RC until the final release
> 
> Note that there are no open MRs that affect the driver ABI and which
> make sense to merge at this time relatively near the RC phase. Thus for
> practical purposes the ABI freeze could as well be today.
> 
> Differently than previous releases of the X server, the
> `server-21.1-branch` release branch will branch off just before the RC 1
> release and not after the final release of 21.1. This is because we want
> to remove the code of xwayland DDX for the RC releases as xwayland is
> released separately. Accordingly, after RC 1 is released the master
> branch will be open again for changes targeting the next release.
> 
> Regards,
> Povilas Kanapickas
>