Yes, not knowing is what ends up with the stampede of “oh, I need this fixed too” MRs after we announce rc1. Hopefully this will allow us to say “sorry, you had 6 months to get this ready” for such things instead of pushing the release back further and further…
Basically, if you have some use case that is not covered by our CI today, now is the time to start that process with a nightly builder or, at the least, an issue to bring it to our attention. I hope to be getting gitlab-ci up and running more of our target setups over the summer.