[vtk-developers] announce: vtk 6.2.0 release candidate 1 is ready

[Sean McBride]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:16:54 -0500, David E DeMarle said:

>Aiming for an rc each Monday. The number of rcs depends on the severity of
>things that people find.
>
>So far Ben and I have our eyes on three topics, none of which are severe.
>Most likely those will fold into release tonight and become 6.2.0 final
>come Monday. If something else turns up we'll do rc2 then instead and
>reevaluate later next week.
>
>Patch releases are not time consuming, so if something slips through we'll
>do a patch release in a month or so.

That seems awfully fast. :(

Isn't the goal of a release candidate phase to give a chance for people to test before releasing a dud?  7 days is pretty short.  Releasing a dud and requiring a 6.2.1 a couple of days later would look bad.

Personally, I'd prefer to see something like ITK or CMake or llvm, which release a few rc's over a few weeks.  ex: searching my email history:

2014-12-08  ITK 4.7rc1
2014-12-16  ITK 4.7rc2
2014-12-19  ITK 4.7

Taking my own case: rc1 announced Monday, Tuesday I had time to build it, Wednesday I tested a little, today I merged into our build process, tonight's nightly will include it, and only tomorrow will our QA take a crack at it.

Cheers,

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