[openssl-project] Late thoughts on the 1.1.1 release - are we fooling ourselves?

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 06:39:54PM +0200, Richard Levitte wrote:
> In message <20180817162909.GA10354 at roeckx.be> on Fri, 17 Aug 2018 18:29:09 +0200, Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be> said:
> 
> kurt> On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 01:55:13PM +0200, Richard Levitte wrote:
> kurt> > Personally, I see this as a showstopper re a release on Tuesday
> kurt> 
> kurt> You mean a beta release?
> 
> ...
> 
> D'oh.  For some reason, I got mixed up and imagined a live release on
> Tuesday.
> 
> So ok, not a showstopper per se, even though I would have *liked* to
> see as much of the applicable issues fixed and PRs (and that includes
> those I'm talking about) applied as possible.
> 
> However, I think we need to go over the "Assessed" milestone stuff and
> make an actual assessment on them (i.e. labeling them correctly).  The
> final release will probably not be very far away, and I'd hate to have
> to call showstopper again by then.

I agree.  And, if we make a bunch of (bugfix) changes between a beta
release and the scheduled final release, it may be more appropriate to do
another beta than to do a final release with "many" (vaguely defined)
changes since the last beta.

-Ben

> See this thread as an early warning ;-)