Re: [PROPOSAL] - maintain projected release date for 1.7

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Hyrum K Wright
<hyrum.wright_at_wandisco.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would like to see us maintain a projected release date for 1.7 once we
> > have moved to the RC phase. Most likely place to put it would be here:
> > http://subversion.apache.org/roadmap.html
> > I think including this date in the RC announcement would make the
> > announcement stronger and encourage testing, although I am fine with just
> > maintaining it on our dev@ list and website.
> > We have a good idea when the release date will be, based on our defined
> > policies. I think publicizing when we anticipate rolling the final
> release
> > tarball and likely release the signed version will simply eliminate
> > confusion by letting everyone know in advance when these events are going
> to
> > happen. This also makes it easier for our downstream ecosystem, such as
> > TortoiseSVN, Subclipse, AnkhSVN etc. to know when to expect the release
> so
> > that they can better plan their own releases.
> > If we need to create a new RC and restart the soak period, then we can
> just
> > update the date to reflect this but at least we can all be on the same
> page
> > about it and give our downstream a proper heads-up on the change and what
> > that means for the new date.
> > Based on my math, if we roll RC1 this week and release on Monday, then
> add 4
> > weeks for the soak and we have Sept. 19. Assuming we roll final tarball
> on
> > Weds (Sept 21) we would then expect to release on Monday Sept 26.
>
> IIRC, we can roll the final before the end of the soak, so as to
> release when the 4-week soak is up.
>
> but +1 on the general idea of being more communicative to our users
> and publicizing our anticipated release dates.
>

Are you planning to publish a projected a release date with the RC
announcement?

What is the projected date? Would we try to release 4 weeks from today
(Sept 28th) or would we plan on publishing the tarball for signatures on
that date with the release sometime the following week?

If we are going to release on Sept 28th, I would assume you plan to roll the
final tarball around Sept 21/22 ?

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/