Re: No more RFC implementations during beta phase

On 27.09.2024 at 18:22, Arvids Godjuks wrote: > I agree with the general sentiment that alpha/beta/rc should be followed in > their canonical form: > - Alpha - API/ABI gets broken, new stuff gets introduced, big > implementations happen > - Beta - new big additions are not allowed any more and introduced feature > stabilisation and bugfixing occurs (this is where you polish > implementations) and general feature freeze goes into effect > - RC - final testing, bugfixing and eventually release. Thank you, I like that! Maybe something like this should be added to our release cycle documentation. > But I think the struggle we have with RFC's coming late and being a time > crunch is the timing of the release - November. The big problem is that the > vast majority of development and voting and RFC ironing out happens during > summer when a lot of people are on vacations, travel and in general are not > here. So come September/October - all hell breaks loose. And that happens > every single year. Interesting theory! However, I believe the actual problem is that most of the developers have a long backlog, so everything gets pushed closed to the respective deadline. And that leads to the stress around this time we indeed have for years. Christoph