18/10/2018 14:50, Mcnamara, John:
> Hi,
>
> There are two constraints within the 19.02 release timeframe this year:
>
> * Christmas/New Year's holidays
> * Chinese Spring Festival Holiday 4th-10th February (with some people out
> the week before as well). Note this is much earlier than in previous years.
>
> Since the majority of the testing is done by the Intel team in China we
> would need to complete all testing before the end of January. Working back
> from this and avoiding having people work over Christmas week we would have
> the following dates:
>
> * Proposal deadline Friday 23 November 2018
> * Merge deadline Friday 14 December 2018
> * RC1 release Friday 21 December 2018
> * RCx + Testing Friday 25 January 2019
> * Release Friday 1 February 2019
>
> In order to meet these deadlines we would have to reduce the size/scope
> of the release.
>
> So the proposal would be that 19.02 is a smaller release and that we would
> prioritize 19.05 as a larger release.
>
> Note, this also means that the Proposal deadline in only about 1 month away
> and that it may occur before the 18.11 is released.
>
> If there are major objections or people have better ideas on how to schedule
> the release then let us know.
As discussed in release meeting today, we will move the proposal deadline
by few days (Thursday 29th) to make it happen after 18.11 release.