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Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 20:07:51 -0500
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU 2.1 release schedule?
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>

Quoting Peter Maydell (2014-05-08 08:48:01)
> On 28 April 2014 16:38, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> > Thanks to everybody who helped with getting QEMU 2.0 released.
> > The traditional reward for a job well done is another job, which
> > means we should probably work out what the release schedule for
> > 2.1 is going to be.
> >
> > We started 2.1's development phase on 17th April, which means that
> > for a standard 3 month release we're looking at mid to late July
> > release. (Of course if we stick to 3 month releases then the
> > slippage on 2.0 means we'll only have 3 releases this year, not
> > 4; do we care?)
> >
> > I felt we were a bit too aggressive in the schedule this
> > time around, and didn't really leave enough hard-freeze time
> > for producing, testing and stabilizing the release candidates.
> > I think we should probably aim for something more like what
> > 2.0 actually ended up with, rather than our proposed dates
> > (see http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.0).
> =

> Paolo suggested on IRC:
> =

> > soft freeze mid june, hard freeze beginning of july,
> > release end of july or beginning of august?
> =

> Which works for me. Some concrete dates:
>  * 17 June: softfreeze and rc0
>    [ 2 week softfreeze period ]
>  * 1 July: hardfreeze
>    [ 4 week hardfreeze period, aiming for
>      rc1, rc2, rc3 at about weekly intervals ]
>  * 29 July: release
> =

> Michael: does that schedule work for you, given you'd
> be doing the tarball-rolling parts?

Looks good, don't see any issues with the proposed schedule on my end.

> =

> thanks
> -- PMM