3.0 release timeline proposal

Dmitry Belyavsky beldmit at gmail.com
Tue Jan 7 13:46:10 UTC 2020


Sorry. My fault :(

On Tue, 7 Jan 2020, 16:35 Matt Caswell, <matt at openssl.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 07/01/2020 13:26, Dmitry Belyavsky wrote:
> > Many thanks!
> >
> > Got it, and I think this should be directly written.
>
> It was!!
>
> beta1, 2020-06-02: Code complete (API stable, feature freeze)
>
>
> Matt
>
>
> >
> > On Tue, 7 Jan 2020, 16:05 Matt Caswell, <matt at openssl.org
> > <mailto:matt at openssl.org>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >     On 07/01/2020 13:00, Dmitry Belyavsky wrote:
> >     > When does the feature freeze happen?
> >     > I'm interested in publishing as much GOST support as possible.
> >
> >     According to my proposal feature freeze would happen on release of
> >     beta1, i.e. 2020-06-02.
> >
> >     Matt
> >
> >
> >     >
> >     > On Tue, 7 Jan 2020, 14:13 Matt Caswell, <matt at openssl.org
> >     <mailto:matt at openssl.org>
> >     > <mailto:matt at openssl.org <mailto:matt at openssl.org>>> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >     Hi all
> >     >
> >     >     Myself, Paul, Shane, Richard and Nicola had a conf call today
> >     to discuss
> >     >     the outstanding tasks and effort required to get us to a final
> >     release.
> >     >
> >     >     We've previously said this about that timeline:
> >     >
> >     >     "We are now not expecting code completion to occur until the
> >     end of Q2
> >     >     2020 with a final release in early Q4 2020."
> >     >     (https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2019/11/07/3.0-update/)
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >     With that in mind we came up with the following proposal for a
> >     release
> >     >     timetable which we think is a challenging but achievable
> timeline:
> >     >
> >     >     alpha1, 2020-03-31: Basic functionality plus basic FIPS module
> >     >     alpha2, 2020-04-21: Complete external provider support
> >     (serialization,
> >     >     support for new algs, support for providers which only include
> >     >     operations in a class)
> >     >     alpha3, 2020-05-21: Almost there (aiming to test the API
> >     completeness
> >     >     before beta1 freezes it)
> >     >     beta1, 2020-06-02: Code complete (API stable, feature freeze)
> >     >     betaN: Other beta TBD
> >     >     Final: 2020 early Q4
> >     >
> >     >     The idea here is to set some intermediate deadlines to focus
> >     attention
> >     >     on the final remaining tasks, with a series of 3 alphas prior
> >     to the
> >     >     first beta release where each alpha release comes
> >     approximately every 3
> >     >     weeks. We can have some flexibility to adjust this timetable
> >     if we think
> >     >     it is necessary (such as by including an additional alpha
> >     release if
> >     >     required).
> >     >
> >     >     Please let me know your thoughts. This would probably need to
> >     go to an
> >     >     OMC vote to get approved.
> >     >
> >     >     Matt
> >     >
> >
>
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