rc94 discussion (mid-April 2021?)

[kolyshkin]

After releasing rc93, we are in feature freeze, i.e. only bug fixes¹ are accepted into rc94,
which (hopefully) will be the last rc before the final 1.0 release.

Issues and PRs targeted for rc94 need to be added to 1.0.0-rc94 milestone

• changes since rc93: v1.0.0-rc93...master
• PRs targeted for rc94
• PRs targeted for rc94 with impact/changelog label

¹ I want to make an exception for CI improvements, as those do not directly affect the code,
but might result in better quality/coverage/etc. Maybe also trivial features such as #2789.

[cyphar]

Yeah, i'm fine with CI changes. Feature freeze doesn't include things like documentation and CI. Also depending on Docker's testing we might be able to skip rc94 entirely.

[JonathonReinhart]

Am I too late for #2826 to be considered for v1.0.0?

[h-vetinari]

Mid-march has arrived - there's still a fair amount of open PRs in the milestone. Biggest unknown seems to be #2797, which doesn't have a PR yet.

PS. June 4th is the 5th birthday of 1.0.0-rc1, would be fun if 1.0.0 could/would be released on that date 🙃

[cyphar]

I should have a PR for #2797 ready next week or so -- I was on vacation hence the lack of work on it. 😉

EDIT: Ah, next week is hackweek. I will work on it the week after.

[elldritch]

Is there an ETA for the rc94 release? I'm particularly interested in #2801 (comment) since I'm on Arch and Docker is just straight up broken for me until this patch is released. If the release is soon, I'll just wait for it, but if it's far off, I'm going to look at messing with my kernel parameters instead.

[kolyshkin]

Just talked to @cyphar -- it seems it makes sense to release rc94 before the cgroup v2 device changes he is working on are ready, as we already have a decent amount of fixes; that includes a fix for regression in rc93 (issues #2865, #2828, presumably fixed by PR #2871).

Let's try to merge the remaining PRs with the rc94 milestone and prepare a release.

[cyphar]

Yup, I can cook up a release with those fixes once they're merged.

[AkihiroSuda]

SGTM

[haircommander]

any opposition to adding #2894 (fixes a regression between rc92 and rc93)

[mrunalp]

SGTM

[cyphar]

Only big thing remaining is #2896.

[kolyshkin]

I'd like to have #2897 included as this fixes a real bug (albeit not a regression) and I'd rather have the fix being tested in rc94.