From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: =?utf-8?B?4oCYY29yZS11cGRhdGVz?= =?utf-8?B?4oCZ?= schedule Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2017 13:11:08 -0400 Message-ID: <20170408171108.GA25066@jasmine> References: <87mvbuylwq.fsf@gnu.org> <20170406150845.GA5287@jasmine> <871st42qfu.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51224) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cwttQ-0003g8-5P for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2017 13:11:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cwttL-0006ge-0j for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2017 13:11:20 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <871st42qfu.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 05:22:13PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Leo Famulari skribis: > > On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 10:34:29AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> Last but not least: who wants to be the timekeeper? The position mostly > >> consists in firmly reminding people of the schedule. :-) > > > > I tried to do it this time around, but we kept finding bugs and > > experiencing build failures that we couldn't ignore. > > My thought was that fixing specific dates might help get everyone > psychologically prepared and ready to focus on stabilizing the branch > when the time comes. Agreed, we should try to stick to your suggested schedule this time. I'm not trying to discourage anyone :) Just sharing my experience of what sort of problems we can expect, for those who haven't paid close attention to a core-updates cycle before.