Squid v8 release schedule proposal

Hi all,
  Now that v7 out of beta, it's time to start thinking about v8.

Unfortunately we released too late to make it into Debian forky. V7 is
in sid/unstable, but the next stable will ship v6.13.
Ubuntu 25.10 ("questing") is also carrying 6.13 at this time.

I've asked the Debian maintaner a tentative timeline for getting
squid-8 included in the next stable version of Debian, he mentioned a
likely target is to be out of beta by january 2027. Working backwards,
I propose to set the date for forking v8 in early October 2026.

Thoughts?

-- 
    Francesco