Hard freeze manager notes 2019.10

This page includes notes for management of the hard freeze.

To Do

• Review @miri64 release PR #138 on IP fragmentation
• Review dump-issues PR
• Make a 2nd pass on 2019-10-09 at removing PRs that won't get completed. Only bug fix PRs should be left.
• Be sure to merge #12190.
• Create release branch on 2019-10-10. Run riot-release-manager feature-freeze yyyy.mm. This script should create a testing issue in the release specs repository.
• Send message on freeze.
• Send message to maintainer's list asking for help with testing.

Blog

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2019-10-08

10:50

Added the "three pushes and you're out" guideline to the Preparation section of the Managing a Release wiki page.

10:00

Started with 65 PRs for release, reduced to 29 by pushing off staled milestone PRs. These PRs no longer have a milestone by the "three pushes and you're out" guideline.