Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-mips: fix call to memset in soft reset code

[Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>]

On Thu, 12 May 2016 09:40:21 +0200
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> Maybe a topic for this years QEMU summit could be to talk about
> release process and release criterias.

+1 to that.

> We could 
> a: allow more patches , e.g. I thing that this patch would be have 
> been taken in the Linux kernel a day before the release, see for 
> example what is applied 4 days before a release as network fixes:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4d8bbbff1227bbb27fdb02b6db17f080c06eedad
> 22 files changed, 258 insertions, 86 deletions

Personally, I would probably go for something between applying this
patch and that networking pull :)

> b: as we are strict and only apply hand selected patches, regressions are
> very unlikely, so we could release sooner. For example the CVE fixes could 
> have just been taken and rc5 being released as final. (which we did anyway
> but 3 days later)
> 
> c: we consider everything fine and keep the process
> 
> d: better ideas

One thing I've noticed is that softfreeze/early hardfreeze qemus often
seem more unstable than versions earlier in the development cycle -
probably because people panic and rush to get code in for the release.
I don't know if stricter rules/enforcement of what is supposed to go in
during softfreeze/hardfreeze would help here.