Delaying v8.x semver-minor release

[MylesBorins]

There are two semver minor PRs against 8.x that we would like to land (they are finally green), but have not had time to do a proper r.c.

nodejs/node#16413 (update V8 to 6.2)
nodejs/node#18622 (add support for openssl 1.1.0)

The release is planned for next Tuesday. I think we should delay.

We have a couple options

• Backout semver minor commits from 8.x and do a semver patch release
• Delay release by 1 - 2 weeks
• Skip this release and make the March release of 8.x semver minor.

Thoughts?

[richardlau]

Agreed that we should allow time for a proper release candidate for the two mentioned semver-minors. I guess the question is whether the remaining semver patch commits warrant a semver patch release.

cc @kasicka re. nodejs/node#16509 (comment) and nodejs/node#18625

[richardlau]

What about releasing the semver-minors that are in the current rc as planned and delay the two mentioned commits to the next semver-minor (possibly make March also semver-minor)?

[MylesBorins]

@richardlau we've actively avoided doing multiple semver minors for LTS in the past. The next scheduled minor would be next quarter... we could do this but I don't like the precedent it sets

[mhdawson]

My preference would be to delay by 1-2 weeks.

[MylesBorins]

@mhdawson I am open to that

The current schedule has the 20th as the date for the next r.c, how do you think we should go about that?

[gibfahn]

The current schedule has the 20th as the date for the next r.c, how do you think we should go about that?

We've already delayed a week right? So in total this release would be 3 weeks late. In that case we probably just want to drop the March 6th release and do 8.10.1 on April 3rd instead.

Date	Release
January 2nd	v8.9.4
January 23th	v8.10.0-rc
February 13th	v8.10.0
February 27th	v8.10.0
February 20th	v8.10.1-rc
March 6th	v8.10.1
March 20th	v8.10.21-rc
April 3rd	v8.10.21

[MylesBorins]

@gibfahn would we potentially just want to push the release until the 6th?

[gibfahn]

@gibfahn would we potentially just want to push the release until the 6th?

You mean the v8.10.0 release? I'm not opposed to doing that.

[MylesBorins]

I think that is what we should do to keep calendar simple

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[mhdawson]

+1 to pushing to the 6th as well.

[gibfahn]

Done in https://github.com/nodejs/Release/wiki/Home/947ac13a5365e28aa8117aa2be40cd5347ffe7ca