On 07/21/2016 12:25 AM, Marko Lindqvist wrote: > On 21 July 2016 at 00:06, Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 07/20/2016 11:21 AM, Craig Andrews wrote: >>> >>> what's >>> blocking a release? >> >> Lack of free time from someone with commit rights. > > How much time it takes to make a release? For the outsider there's > not many obviously needed steps that take a lot of time. Does making a > RC take as much time as full release, or could we have RC for testing > both autoconf and the build systems of projects that use it? > The biggest time sink is digging through the mail archives to ensure that all posted patches that are still relevant have been applied; I know that there is a big body of work for detecting compiler warnings that needs to be reviewed and incorporated. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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