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Re: Bits from the Release Team: bookworm freeze dates (preliminary)



Leandro Cunha <leandrocunha016@gmail.com> wrote on 15/03/2022 at 23:18:37+0100:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 7:05 PM Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Leandro Cunha <leandrocunha016@gmail.com> wrote on 15/03/2022 at 22:57:39+0100:
>>
>> > On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 5:16 PM Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >  Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> wrote on 14/03/2022 at 21:43:38+0100:
>> >
>> >  > Dear all,
>> >  >
>> >  > We are currently considering the following dates as our freeze
>> >  > dates. If you are aware of major clashes of these dates with anything
>> >  > we depend on please let us know. We also like to stress again that we
>> >  > really would like to have a short Hard and Full Freeze (counting in
>> >  > weeks, rather than months), so please plan accordingly. If serious
>> >  > delays turn up during any of the Freeze steps, we rather (partially or
>> >  > completely) thaw bookworm again than staying frozen for a long time.
>> >  >
>> >  > 2023-01-12      - Milestone 1 - Transition and toolchain freeze
>> >  > 2023-02-12      - Milestone 2 - Soft Freeze
>> >  > 2023-03-12      - Milestone 3 - Hard Freeze - for key packages and
>> >  >                                 packages without autopkgtests
>> >  > To be announced - Milestone 4 - Full Freeze
>> >  >
>> >  > On behalf of the Release Team,
>> >
>> >  Hi,
>> >
>> >  OOC, isn't that a bit "too short"? We started to work again in August
>> >  2021, it'll be less than two years until the freeze.
>> >
>> > Less than 1 year to go to milestone 1 starts in January.
>>
>> I was referring to the delay between the end of the freeze and the next
>> hard freeze.
>
> Ok. Debian has been releasing versions every 2 years for a long time.
> I was looking at the site here to remember the dates.
> It is a cycle that is being continued.
>
> https://www.debian.org/releases/

I always have been under the impression it was around 2.5 years between
releases, but indeed, this impression was false.

Thanks!
-- 
PEB

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