Release schedule for 0.19.0 #15940

issue laanwj opened this issue on May 2, 2019

laanwj commented at 2:05 PM on May 2, 2019: member
Here is a proposed release schedule for 0.19.0, the next major release of Bitcoin Core. Like for previous major releases I've aimed for a release 6 months after the last ( #14438).

2019-09-01 :heavy_check_mark:
- Open Transifex translations for 0.19
- Soft translation string freeze (no large or unnecessary string changes until release)
- Finalize and close translations for 0.17
2019-09-15 :heavy_check_mark:
- Feature freeze (bug fixes only until release)
- Translation string freeze (no more source language changes until release)
2019-10-01 :heavy_check_mark:
- Split off 0.19 branch from master
- Start RC cycle, tag and release 0.19.0rc1
- Start merging for 0.20 on master branch
2019-11-03 :heavy_check_mark:
- Release 0.19.0 final (aim)
If any specific dates or timeframes are a problem for you, let me know.

Edit: schedule was moved two months back on 2019-05-07, for reference, the old schedule was:
```
2019-11-01    Soft translation string freeze
2019-11-15    Feature freeze
2019-12-01    Split off 0.19 branch from master
2020-01-03    Release 0.19.0 final (aim)
```
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laanwj commented at 6:08 AM on May 7, 2019: member
@moneyball correctly remarked that these dates start off the process at the projected release date (6 months after 0.18.0, so, 2019-11-01) instead of aiming to do the release then. Should we move this this schedule two months back?
```
2019-09-01    Soft translation string freeze
2019-09-15    Feature freeze
2019-10-01    Split off 0.19 branch from master
2019-11-03    Release 0.19.0 final (aim)
```
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fanquake commented at 6:32 AM on May 7, 2019: member

Should we move this this schedule two months back?

ACK 📆
jonasschnelli commented at 7:25 AM on May 7, 2019: contributor

Should we move this this schedule two months back?

ACK
laanwj commented at 7:30 AM on May 7, 2019: member

Ok, done
stevebaros commented at 3:58 PM on May 14, 2019: none

Are we going to translate this via transifex
MarcoFalke commented at 4:02 PM on May 14, 2019: member

See https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/translation_process.md
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GChuf commented at 12:43 PM on September 1, 2019: contributor

@laanwj I wanted to let you know I let you a message on transifex regarding 0.19 - just in case you wouldn't notice. Thanks
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awesome-doge commented at 6:05 AM on September 5, 2019: none

I have supplemented the translation of Chinese (Taiwan) (zh_TW) and Chinese (China) (zh_CN) on transifex.
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laanwj commented at 9:07 AM on October 9, 2019: member

rc1 binaries are up, and have been announced on the bitcoin-core-dev mailing list

https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.19.0/test.rc1/ https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-core-dev/2019-October/000082.html
laanwj commented at 11:31 AM on November 10, 2019: member

Closing, -final has been tagged.
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