On Sun, Mar 01, 2026 at 04:15:04PM +0100, Peter Schneider wrote:
Am 01.03.2026 um 13:05 schrieb Mark Brown: [...]
I've previously noted that releasing -rcs on a Friday afternoon isn't good for ensuring coverage (this was what happened with 6.19.2 and related releases...), the same is also true for releasing them on a Saturday with a deadline that's very early on Monday for a lot of the world.
I second that, and would like to suggest that when a stable RC release is done on a Friday afternoon or even on a Saturday, it would be better to extend the response deadline until Tuesday afternoon, so that people who want to help with testing have a chance to do so without having to "sacrifice" weekend/family time.
As far as the -rc goes, we just release it whenever our queues get longer. I don't think that that matters if that goes out on a Friday.
For the release deadline, you definitely shouldn't sacrifice personal time to test: at the end of the day, releasing is a judgement call, and if we don't see the usual reports then we will hold off the release for a bit until we know what is going on.