Re: Subversion 1.15.0-rc3 up for testing/signing

mån 13 juli 2026 kl. 22:14 skrev Timofei Zhakov <[email protected]>:

> On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 1:38 PM Evgeny Kotkov via dev <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The 1.15.0-rc3 release artifacts are now available for testing/signing.
>> Please get the tarballs from
>>   https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/subversion
>> and add your signatures there.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
> I'll soon go ahead and do the testing. Just have a small question to
> clarify;
>
> How exactly are we planning to roll the final release? I mean in a sense
> AFAIK according to the policy we need two official RC's to be released
> before. Am I missing something?
>

From what I understand I HACKING [1], there is no requirement of a specific
number of RC’s: ”If no serious bugs are found, the -rc tag will be dropped,
and the contents of this release will be declared stable.”



> So this hopefully must be the first one we roll out, then we'll have rc4
> and 1.15.0, right? Also of course if we have something we need to follow up
> we'll skip a version but it doesn't change the point all that much.
>
> I think it's important because there are still some nominations in the
> stable branch so all the blockers are merged by the right moment.
>

I would prefer if we get 1.15 out of the door even if there are still
nominations. I don’t think they are critical and getting the release done
seems like a priority right now.

/Daniel


> --
> Timofei Zhakov
>

[1]
https://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/community-guide.html#release-numbering