Re: [Qemu-devel] Planning for the 0.11.0 release

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Blue Swirl wrote:
> On 6/23/09, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>>  It's getting to be about the time to start thinking about the 0.11.0
>> release.  0.10.0 was released on March 2nd so following with the 6 month
>> release cycle, that would put 0.11.0 at September 2nd.
>>
>>  Based on the experiences with the stable releases, here's what I'd
>> recommend:
>>
>>  o On July 15th, fork master -> stable-0.11
>>  o Change version to 0.10.90
>>  o Release qemu-0.11.0-rc1
>>  o Release additional -rcN releases every 1-2 weeks
>>  o Introduce a new maintainer for stable-0.10 (via git pulls)
>>  o At least 1 week before release, hopefully we'll have the final -rcN that
>> we can then declare 0.11.0.
>>     
>
> Sounds OK. I think OpenBIOS releases should follow similar schedule,
> maybe even with matching SVN tags (1.1-rc1 for 0.11.0-rc1 etc).
>
>   
>>  I think we should really try hard to make these dates.  I only have a few
>> things that I would like to see happen before forking stable-0.11.  Namely:
>>
>>  o Setup qemu.org infrastructure (git hosting, wiki)
>>  o Setup qemu bug tracker (see next mail)
>>  o Include all ROM source code in tree via git submodules.  This is a major
>> headache for distributors and I think it's important to resolve before our
>> next release.
>>     
>
> I think this is great, but OpenBIOS still uses Subversion. Can git use
> SVN submodules for example?
>   
No, but it's not too hard to make svn->git bridges.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori


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Regards,

Anthony Liguori