[OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt 20.X release plans

[Tom Psyborg]

On 16/01/2020, Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I meet with jow about 2 weeks ago and we talked about a lot of OpenWrt
> related stuff, one of the topics was the release after 19.07.
>
> As the 19.07 release is now done, I would like to follow up on this topic.
>
> We thought that the time between the 19.07 branch and the final release
> was way too long, this should be much shorter in the next release, we
> should target 8 weeks for that.
>
> My preferred timeline would the the following:
> * Beginning of February: freeze master for big changes (adding new
> boards is no problem)
> * Beginning of March: branch off 20.3 release branch
> * 1 week after the branch was created: tag and build 20.3-rc1
> * 3 weeks later tag and build 20.3-rc2
> * 3 weeks later tag and build 20.3 final
>
> Then we would do the next final release in May 2020.
>
> This plan is based on using kernel 4.19, if we use kernel 5.4 I would
> assume we have to shift all dates by 3 months, so branch off in
> beginning of June and final release in August.
>

And then come summer vacations and other reasons to not be able to
finish it on time so it would be delayed probably even few more
months...

On 16/01/2020, Petr Štetiar <ynezz at true.cz> wrote:
>
> Yeah, we're all aware about that. If we decide to skip 4.19, we're partialy
> throwing away a lot of work,

You said it. Thus it's better to release based on 4.19

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