Re: Pre-branch commits

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 05:11:31AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> I'd like to suggest a possible solution:   Go back to the old way,
> and announce the branch date in advance (with a reasonable
> lead time, not just a day or so, which would change nothing.
> Reasonable here is likely to be something like a month.)

Yes, I'd like to do that.

I was trying to come up with an official "must have" feature list, but
by now most of what I would have put there already made it into -current.

The only thing that is still open and not exactly a chekpoint feature
is my personal perception that the aarch64 port (which will have its debut
with 9.0) could use a small bit of more stability. Due to lack of something
better my simple metric would be: number of ATF failures <= numer of ATF
failures on e.g. alpha or sparc64, and additionaly (quite egoistic) a fully
working XFce4 setup on my pinebook ;-)

After having everything in place, releng would pick some arbitrary date
and if a that point all builds are green, create the branch. This date
should be published as early as possible, with a request to developers
NOT to rush in things shortly before the deadline.

Martin