Schedule for the 2.44 release

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 5/31/26 8:29 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> here's my suggestion for the 2.44 release schedule. If there's something wrong with it,
> now it's the time to say so...
> 
>      20 June 2026: Soft freeze
>          No *starting* of new features anymore
>          Decisions on what goes still in and what goes not
>          Review and addition of patches

This looks good to me.

This gives us 2 weeks of soft freeze to close things out e.g. SIGEV_THREAD etc.

>      4 July 2026: Freeze
>          Machine testing
>          Bug fixes without large impact
>          No ABI changes without RM discussion
>          High risk bug fixes should be discussed on the list.

Also looks good.

This gives us 2 weeks of machine testing.


>      18 July 2026: Hard freeze
>          Only critically important or technically straightforward bug fixes
>      1 Aug 2026 (or ideally a bit earlier): Release

Earlier is always better.

This gives us a 2 week buffer to release early or fix a pre-GA bug.

> For most of the time I'll be on UTC+8..10 and traveling, so expect unusual response times.
> (I'm a late night person though, so I'll make it to the meetings.)

Thank you for laying out the schedule!

LGTM.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.