Release schedule for 0.13.0 #7679

1. 
   laanwj commented at 11:29 AM on March 14, 2016: member

   Posting this here too, may be easier to find than the mailing list. Also the dates can be edited here if necessary.

   Proposed release schedule for 0.13.0:
   
   2016-06-01
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   - Open Transifex translations for 0.13
   - Soft translation string freeze (no large or unnecessary string changes until release)
   - Finalize and close translations for 0.11
   
   2016-06-16
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   - Feature freeze (bug fixes only until release)
   - Translation string freeze (no more source language changes until release)
   
   2016-07-06
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   - Split off `0.13` branch from `master`
   - Start RC cycle, tag and release `0.13.0rc1`
   - Start merging for 0.14 on master branch
   
   2016-08-01
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   - Release 0.13.0 final (aim)
   

   Original ref: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-March/012562.html Meeting log 2016-04-15: http://www.erisian.com.au/meetbot/bitcoin-core-dev/2016/bitcoin-core-dev.2016-04-14-19.00.log.html

2. laanwj added the label Docs and Output on Mar 14, 2016
3. laanwj added this to the milestone 0.13.0 on Mar 14, 2016
4. 
   kirkalx commented at 12:34 AM on March 15, 2016: contributor

   -2015 +2016 for the first 2 I assume?

5. 
   dcousens commented at 12:57 AM on March 15, 2016: contributor

   Thanks for posting this here @laanwj, especially helpful for those of us that don't track the mailing list :+1:

6. 
   laanwj commented at 8:41 AM on March 15, 2016: member

   for the first 2 I assume?

   Yea updated.

7. 
   laanwj commented at 7:51 PM on April 14, 2016: member

   According to the meeting discussion on 2016-04-14 I've moved all the dates forward by one month.

8. 
   laanwj commented at 11:24 AM on May 5, 2016: member

   Moved the feature freeze from 2016-06-15 to 2016-06-16, can't be there on the 15th. One day extra, hooray.

9. 
   maaku commented at 7:47 PM on June 9, 2016: contributor

   Refactor merge window?

10. 
    dexX7 commented at 9:49 PM on July 12, 2016: contributor

    @laanwj: 0.13 wasn't split yet. Is 2016-08-01 still the target for the release?

11. 
    MarcoFalke commented at 8:14 AM on July 13, 2016: member

    Is 2016-08-01 still the target for the release?

    If no issues pop up during the rc phase, it seems likely that the release will happen within a week or two after rc1.

    Though, some bug fixes and other pulls need to be reviewed and merged (preferably before rc1). Please refer to https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/milestone/20 and help review the outstanding pull request.

12. 
    laanwj commented at 1:20 PM on July 13, 2016: member

    @marcofalke is correct. rc1 is still blocked on some issues at this moment, and I think it makes sense to split off the 0.13 branch just before releasing 0.13.0rc1. Could do it before that, but I don't think there's that much pressure to start merging for 0.14 yet (and it would involve a lot of extra rebasing work).

13. 
    MarcoFalke commented at 3:29 PM on August 23, 2016: member

    :tada:

14. 
    sipa commented at 3:31 PM on August 23, 2016: member

    I believe this can be closed!

15. laanwj closed this on Aug 25, 2016

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16. MarcoFalke locked this on Sep 8, 2021

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