Hey all,
I had intended to put this into the release email I was going to do yesterday. And then I was hoping to put it into the release email I was hoping to do later this morning. But since it feels like that won't be happening too quickly, I'm doing this standalone.
As I've been saying both in private and at least semi-public (however you wish to think of #u-boot on IRC on Freenode), I've been thinking about the request to go back to a 3 month release cycle for a while. And while I still think 2 months gives us the best trade off between "too quickly" and "code waits too long to get merged", here's what I'm planning to do. The absolute next release is v2018.11, and will be done when it's ready. I am hopeful that will be very soon. The following release is v2019.01 and still on a 2 month cycle as I don't think this is the best time of year to change things up. Historically this has been a small release anyhow. After that however, lets go with v2019.04 and v2019.07. This is two 3-month releases, and will give us a chance to see where things are at. I am hopeful that with about 2 months to prepare for, and then 6 months of 3-month releases we'll all be able to get on the same page at the end of that period and plan out the rest of the v2019 series.
Thanks all!