Swift 5.3 release process

[tkremenek (Ted Kremenek)]

The Swift 5.3 release process has been posted on Swift.org:

https://swift.org/blog/5-3-release-process

The branch date from master is April 20.

[mishal_shah]

We are going to use new branch names for the Swift 5.3 release and these are the dates when we are planning on branching from master.

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Repository	Branch	Branch date
indexstore-db	release/5.3	March 27, 2020
sourcekit-lsp	release/5.3	March 27, 2020
swift-tools-support-core	release/5.3	March 27, 2020
swift-llbuild	release/5.3	March 27, 2020
swift-package-manager	release/5.3	March 27, 2020
swift	release/5.3	April 20, 2020
swift-cmark	release/5.3	April 20, 2020
swift-corelibs-foundation	release/5.3	April 20, 2020
swift-corelibs-libdispatch	release/5.3	April 20, 2020
swift-corelibs-xctest	release/5.3	April 20, 2020
swift-integration-tests	release/5.3	April 20, 2020
swift-stress-tester	release/5.3	April 20, 2020
swift-syntax	release/5.3	April 20, 2020
swift-xcode-playground-support	release/5.3	April 20, 2020
llvm-project	swift/release/5.3	April 20, 2020

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[svanimpe (Steven Van Impe)]

W.r.t. the announced goal of supporting Windows and other Linux distributions: Does this include the Swift Package Manager?

[rex-remind (Rex)]

Curious if Amazon Linux 2 will be included in support.

Building Swift on Amazon Linux 2

About a month ago, Fabian posted on the forums here (Official platform support for other Linux Distributions (and a case for Amazon Linux 2)) and suggested that Amazon Linux 2 would be a good target for official Swift support. I won't recap all of his points here, but I will say that his post started some new discussions and focused some that were already underway, and that push caused interested folks to share their progress and work on the remaining issues. Rather than keep that discussion o…

[rlovelett (Ryan Lovelett)]

It would be great to see what the managers are thinking "additional Linux distributions" will translate to.

I know there is already some Fedora support in terms of an RPM (as far as I can tell is in the official Fedora repository there was even an article about it on the Fedora Magazine). I think it would be great if we helped @Ron_Olson (e.g., tachoknight) by seeing if some of the patches he has to maintain could be mainlined.

Selfishly I would like to see the build and test environment for the 5.3 branch work with Python 3. To me, this is increasingly a hurdle to build Swift on different distributions. There seem to be a bunch of patches for master to fix Python 3 compatibility. It would be great to see those cross the finish line go in master and then get back ported to 5.3.

[Keith (Keith Smiley)]

I'm probably too late for 5.3, but for future reference is there a recommended path for proposing cherry picks to release branches? I submitted 2 a few months ago and never heard anything:

https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/32416
https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/32389

I assumed that all the changes with the r5.3 label would be triaged at some point.

[Douglas_Gregor]

My apologies, this was a mistake on the part of the branch managers. We'll pick these up for the next point release, and see how we can improve our tools/processes so this doesn't happen again.

Doug

[Keith (Keith Smiley)]

No problem! Thanks for merging them!