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Release process Julep

Open simonbyrne opened this issue 6 years ago • 2 comments

  • How often should we make future releases?
  • What should be the timelines and requirements for alpha, beta, RC, etc.?
  • When should we upgrade LLVM?

We should also fully document all the steps in making a release (e.g. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/883c8a38920985e0c02df169ff8c379731d88fc6/Makefile#L112-L129)

simonbyrne avatar Aug 13 '18 18:08 simonbyrne

e.g. https://forge.rust-lang.org/release-process.html

simonbyrne avatar Aug 13 '18 22:08 simonbyrne

My proposal is roughly:

  • Quarterly time-based releases with a month freeze before the release: anything that's merged by the month before is in, anything else isn't.
  • Not sure we need alphas and betas for minor releases, a month of release candidates might be enough.
  • Upgrade LLVM whenever LLVM is released.
  • Consider the last release of the year a "long term support release" which will get ongoing bug fix updates
  • All the other releases will get bug fix releases until the following minor release and not usually many beyond that.

StefanKarpinski avatar Aug 14 '18 00:08 StefanKarpinski