Release schedule for 0.19.0 #15940

1. 
   laanwj commented at 2:05 pm on May 2, 2019: member

   Here is a proposed release schedule for 0.19.0, the next major release of Bitcoin Core. Like for previous major releases I’ve aimed for a release 6 months after the last ( #14438).

   2019-09-01 :heavy_check_mark:

   • Open Transifex translations for 0.19
   • Soft translation string freeze (no large or unnecessary string changes until release)
   • Finalize and close translations for 0.17

   2019-09-15 :heavy_check_mark:

   • Feature freeze (bug fixes only until release)
   • Translation string freeze (no more source language changes until release)

   2019-10-01 :heavy_check_mark:

   • Split off 0.19 branch from master
   • Start RC cycle, tag and release 0.19.0rc1
   • Start merging for 0.20 on master branch

   2019-11-03 :heavy_check_mark:

   • Release 0.19.0 final (aim)

   If any specific dates or timeframes are a problem for you, let me know.

   Edit: schedule was moved two months back on 2019-05-07, for reference, the old schedule was:

   02019-11-01    Soft translation string freeze
   12019-11-15    Feature freeze
   22019-12-01    Split off 0.19 branch from master
   32020-01-03    Release 0.19.0 final (aim)
   

2. laanwj added this to the milestone 0.19.0 on May 2, 2019
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5. 
   laanwj commented at 6:08 am on May 7, 2019: member

   @moneyball correctly remarked that these dates start off the process at the projected release date (6 months after 0.18.0, so, 2019-11-01) instead of aiming to do the release then. Should we move this this schedule two months back?

   02019-09-01    Soft translation string freeze
   12019-09-15    Feature freeze
   22019-10-01    Split off 0.19 branch from master
   32019-11-03    Release 0.19.0 final (aim)
   

6. 
   fanquake commented at 6:32 am on May 7, 2019: member

   Should we move this this schedule two months back?

   ACK 📆

7. 
   jonasschnelli commented at 7:25 am on May 7, 2019: contributor

   Should we move this this schedule two months back?

   ACK

8. 
   laanwj commented at 7:30 am on May 7, 2019: member

   Ok, done
9. 
   stevebaros commented at 3:58 pm on May 14, 2019: none

   Are we going to translate this via transifex
10. 
    MarcoFalke commented at 4:02 pm on May 14, 2019: member

    See https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/translation_process.md
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12. 
    GChuf commented at 12:43 pm on September 1, 2019: contributor

    @laanwj I wanted to let you know I let you a message on transifex regarding 0.19 - just in case you wouldn’t notice. Thanks
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    awesome-doge commented at 6:05 am on September 5, 2019: none

    I have supplemented the translation of Chinese (Taiwan) (zh_TW) and Chinese (China) (zh_CN) on transifex.
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20. 
    laanwj commented at 9:07 am on October 9, 2019: member

    rc1 binaries are up, and have been announced on the bitcoin-core-dev mailing list

    https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.19.0/test.rc1/ https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-core-dev/2019-October/000082.html

21. 
    laanwj commented at 11:31 am on November 10, 2019: member

    Closing, -final has been tagged.
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