Re: Proposal: earlier tarball deadlines

[Alexandre Franke <afranke gnome org>]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 8:04 PM <mcatanzaro gnome org> wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,

> I'd like to propose moving tarball deadlines for the 3.36 cycle one
> business day earlier, from Mondays to Fridays, while leaving the
> overall release deadline on Wednesday. That way, we can have the
> weekend for trying to build the release. This will allow release team
> more time to resolve build failures, hopefully making the job less
> stressful for us. It should also help us avoid late releases. Currently
> we're not able to begin building the release before Monday night
> (American timezones) or Tuesday morning (European timezones), which has
> led to several late releases on Thursday, Friday, and occasionally even
> later. Managing a release is usually a full-day task at least, and
> doing this on business days is very difficult for some of us. There's
> some more motivation for this discussed at [1].
>
> An alternative proposal would be to use Saturday instead of Friday as
> the tarball deadline, which might be nicer for maintainers who prefer
> to release over the weekend. That would still allow release team to
> build the release on Sunday.
>
> Please, if you have any concerns, let us know. Also let us know if you
> have a preference between Friday and Saturday. Remember that the
> deadline still occurs at 23:59 UTC on the day specified.

Weekends are usually the time when most translations get done. If you
remove this opportunity, I guess we should consider freezing earlier
too so that translators basically get the same amount of time to do
their job.

-- 
Alexandre Franke
GNOME Hacker