On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 8:04 PM <mcatanz...@gnome.org> wrote: > Hi,
Hi, > I'd like to propose moving tarball deadlines for the 3.36 cycle one > business day earlier, from Mondays to Fridays, while leaving the > overall release deadline on Wednesday. That way, we can have the > weekend for trying to build the release. This will allow release team > more time to resolve build failures, hopefully making the job less > stressful for us. It should also help us avoid late releases. Currently > we're not able to begin building the release before Monday night > (American timezones) or Tuesday morning (European timezones), which has > led to several late releases on Thursday, Friday, and occasionally even > later. Managing a release is usually a full-day task at least, and > doing this on business days is very difficult for some of us. There's > some more motivation for this discussed at [1]. > > An alternative proposal would be to use Saturday instead of Friday as > the tarball deadline, which might be nicer for maintainers who prefer > to release over the weekend. That would still allow release team to > build the release on Sunday. > > Please, if you have any concerns, let us know. Also let us know if you > have a preference between Friday and Saturday. Remember that the > deadline still occurs at 23:59 UTC on the day specified. Weekends are usually the time when most translations get done. If you remove this opportunity, I guess we should consider freezing earlier too so that translators basically get the same amount of time to do their job. -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
