3.0 beta 1 milestone

[Tomas Mraz]

On Thu, 2020-09-17 at 13:48 +0100, Matt Caswell wrote:
> There's been quite a number of PRs added to the 3.0 beta 1 milestone.
> 
> Within the PRs there are a couple of bug fixes:
> 
> https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12884
> https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12874
> 
> IMO these would be really nice to get into beta 1, but they should
> not
> be considered blockers for it (i.e. if they didn't go in, it
> shouldn't
> stop us from releasing beta 1).
> 
> There are also some nice-to-have items:
> 
> https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12777
> https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12771
> https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12726
> https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12669
> https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12072
> 
> Again - these are nice-to-have, and if they happen to get merged in
> time
> for beta 1 then great. Otherwise, they should wait for 3.1 (possibly
> things which are just cleanup/minor refactoring could still be done
> within the beta period). So, IMO, these should not be considered
> blockers either.
> 
> So - this leads me to the question - what is the milestone for? Does
> it
> means these things *must* go in before we can release beta 1? Or does
> it
> mean we would *like* to get these things in for beta 1?
> 
> I actually don't mind either way - but if its the latter, then I need
> a
> way of identifying the "must haves". These are the top priority
> items,
> and at the moment I can't easily track their progress.

I do not think the milestone should include nice-to-have items.

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Tomáš Mráz
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