[RFC] Release schedule for X server 21.1

[Povilas Kanapickas]

Hello,

There have been a couple of relatively significant bug fixes submitted
over the weekend which we should take into xserver 21.1 branch. As a
result I think it makes sense to defer the release of RC 1 by one week,
to 2021-09-06.

Regards,
Povilas

On 8/10/21 2:57 AM, 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
>