Re: Freeze date?

[Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>]

Hi!
(I'll probably do a copyright review of 0.6.4 in the next hours/days, to help see it
reach Debian soon)

>thank you very much for your recent work to include Trigger Rally 0.6.4

>into the Debain game archives. My colleague and I are wondering how long
>we could actually work on an even newer version of Trigger Rally before
>Debian hits the feature freeze. If possible we would release our version
>0.6.5 just before you guys do not accept any new stuff. This way we
>could ensure to get the most recent additions from our game into Debian
>Stretch.
>Please tell us how long we could take to improve things! (I expect the
>most demanding task with including Trigger Rally has already happened
>for 0.6.4. Therefore it should take very little effort to go for 0.6.5.)


I guess so

There is a third option:

release an 0.6.5~beta or rc or whatever, with most changes in, ask the maintainer
to upload it (it isn't up to me, but to you and him), and try to keep changes
from the rc to the stable version "minimal".


there are two freezes timelines, a soft one and an hard one
(the first allows patches and new releases probably go in testing, as soon
as they are not so huge in differences and a good reason to migrate).

The second one is only for serious bugs fixes and puntual fixes.

In case you have 

https://release.debian.org/

[2016-Nov-05] Transition freeze
[2016-Dec-05] Mandatory 10-day migrations
[2017-Jan-05] Soft freeze (no new packages, no re-entry, 10-day migrations)
[2017-Feb-05] Full freeze



in case of delays, you will probably be able to see the 0.6.5 go in Stretch until january 2017.
But there is a possibility to see Stretch with a beta release of the game (in case Release Team
denies the Stretch migration of the stable release).

So, beware: in case of serious bugs the package will exit testing and not re-enter again,
in case of deny it won't migrate and we will have an rc in Stretch, or if you can release
before 05 january, nothing bad happens.

But you have to know if the rc is stable enough for a release or not.

Hope this helps a little bit,

Gianfranco