[OE-core] Branched for release

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> so when is the right time ? Do we have long enough pre-notice about
>> when we the branching is going to happen?
>
> We release approximately in April and October with a six month cadence.
>
> After the complaints about communication, there have been weekly status
> updates and the release dates were also *clearly* shown in there for
> when the release was planned. Incidentally, if those aren't useful,
> Stephen and I can stop doing them.
>
> Its not unreasonable to assume the branch for release happens sometime
> before the first rc build of the release.

treat this as discussion for next release, since enough water has
passed to make it for this one. I will open a bug in yocto tracker as
well as a  reminder