Re: Xen 4.5 development update (July update)

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 11:30:48AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 09.09.14 at 11:53, <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> > I've trimmed the CC list to just xen-devel and committers/maintainers
> > (mostly from the existing cc list, so not exhaustive).
> > 
> > On Tue, 2014-09-02 at 16:45 -0400, konrad.wilk@oracle.com wrote:
> > 
> >> * Coding time: <=== NOW, one week left!
> >> 
> >> * Feature Freeze: 10th September 2014
> > 
> > I'm wondering if, with various maintainers and committers having been
> > away at various points over the summer (August in particular), we should
> > perhaps consider slipping the schedule a little bit.
> > 
> > I was away a fair bit myself and I still have a fairly large pile of
> > patches to wade through, many of which I consider important for 4.5[0].
> > I'm not sure how other maintainers feel about their respective areas.
> 
> A certain amount of slip would likely help me too, as would if the flood
> of patches (or revisions thereof) would start to decrease. I think we
> need to consider taking some measures to prevent everyone wanting
> to rush in their changes during the last couple of weeks before the
> freeze (irrespective of how long ago a first iteration may have been
> posted). I can only say that with the current situation (which I don't
> think was ever that bad), and with the need for me to do things other
> than patch reviewing, I'm not going to feel bad at all if some or all of
> those series miss 4.5 even if that's only because I didn't get to look at
> the n-th iteration thereof.

Hehe.

What is a comfortable amount of time for folks to feel that they can get
some code in?

Would a two week slippage be too little? Three weeks?
One month slippage scares me.

> 
> Jan
>