Re: [Qemu-devel] Cutting a new QEMU release

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Laurent Desnogues wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
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>> Laurent Desnogues wrote:
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>>> For instance someone (Andzrej?) mentionned  ARM in system mode is half
>>> slower than it was before TCG.  Also the ARM target needs some fixing.
>>>
>>> Perhaps doing at least one release candidate to get feedback (and focus on
>>> fixing reported bugs) would be appropriate.
>>>
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>> A release doesn't have to be perfect to be useful.  I think what matters
>> most is whether something is likely to be fixed in the reasonably near
>> future.  We're going to have some regressions compared to 0.9.1.  There are
>> a number of platforms that are no longer supported (ia64 and s390, for
>> instance) but we could wait another year and I doubt these features would
>> appear.
>>     
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> I agree we should not care now about targets that are not here anymore.
> But things that are important for the community should be taken with
> care (and arm linux user mode is certainly a very important target).
>   

If someone is actively fixing it, then I'm perfectly happy to wait.  If 
it's a known issue that noone is resolving, I don't think delaying a 
release helps anyone.  However, documenting all of these things 
somewhere so that they are clearly visible may make it easier for 
someone to fix so the process of going through a release would probably 
be helpful in general.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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