Re: [Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 1.3.1

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On 07/03/15 00:40, anonym wrote:
> On 06/03/15 21:28, BitingBird wrote:
>> anonym:
>>> On 06/03/15 15:34, anonym wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'll be the release manager for Tails 1.3.1, which currently is
>>>> scheduled to be released on 2015-04-07 [1]. However, Firefox 37, which
>>>> was supposed to ship that date, has been moved up one week, to
>>>> 2015-03-31 [2] to not coincide with Easter. I presume that the same goes
>>>> for the 31.6.0esr release and hence the next Tor Browser release (which
>>>> I've asked about on tbb-dev@ [3]). I'll continue with that assumption,
>>>> and that we too will change our release date for Tails 1.3.1 to
>>>> 2015-03-31, because otherwise it'll be open season on Tails users for
>>>> browser exploits for a week.
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts? I'll update the calendar [1] if I get an ACK for this new
>>>> release date.
>>>
>>> We just got an ACK that the next Tor Browser will release on 2015-03-31:
>>>
>>>     https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tbb-dev/2015-March/000235.html

>>>
>> So this is a confirmation that the release date is changed? If so,
>> please change the calendar, I'll take care of the milestone in Redmine.
>> Please note that the next release is changed too, so our release should
>> be rescheduled now too.
>
> I'd like to just have some ACKs from some Tails
> developers/contributors/blah first too so I'm not taking this decision
> on my own (still, I don't expect any objections, but who know?). Sorry
> for not making that clear. It's also a good point that we should
> consider moving the 1.4 release date too now.
>
> So, the proposals are to do the following to sync the Tails release
> cycles with the Firefox release cycles:
>
> * Move the release date for Tails 1.3.1 to 2015-03-31.
>
> * Move the release date for Tails 1.4 to 2015-05-12.
>
> Any objections to any of these?


It doesn't seem like there are any objections, so I updated the calendar
with these dates + the details for the 1.3.1 release.

Cheers!