On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 05:21:34PM -0500, Robert Middleton wrote: > With some fixes that have been accomplished over the past few weeks, > we now have only 1-2 issues in JIRA that would need to be finished for > a release, and I think both of those are effectively done at this > point. > > I'm pretty happy with where things are at the moment - there's always > more tweaking that can be done, but I can't think of anything major > that needs to be done that could be done within a reasonable > timeframe. The major thing that was done for the next release was to > make things ABI stable, so as long as we commit to that going > forward(and only breaking it with proper versioning) we should be > good. > > The last time we talked about this Tobias Frost said that the > soft-freeze for Debian is the 12th of January[1], so after that point > an updated library wouldn't make it into Debian. I would like to get > this version into Debian if possible(as that is the distribution I > use), but that depends on Tobias' availability.
Yes, I'm generally available. > With that in mind, should we do a release in the immediate > future(within the next ~7 days), or should we wait a bit for some more > tweaking and/or features? > As said, if the new version does _not_ need an SONAME bump, the deadline is February 12th (at which time it must be in "testing", so effectivly I have to upload it minmum 10 days earlier. (12 to be safe). IF an SONAME bump is required, it will become more challenging, as other Debian teams are involved (and other maintainers if it casues breakages in reverse dependencies) I would basically needs something (it does not need to be the final release, just something with the target SONAME) now to kick of the process. Fixes (without SONAME bump) can still then be provided until February. -- Cheers, tobi > -Robert Middleton > > [1]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/zg150rbkdkzgog1bnd403052818nncs7
