Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

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

Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:54:53 -0500
> Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I think aiming for early to mid-December would give us roughly a 3 month 
>> cycle and would align well with some of the Linux distribution cycles.  
>> I'd like to limit things to a single -rc that lasted only for about a 
>> week.  This is enough time to fix most of the obvious issues I think.
>>     
>
>  How do you plan to do it? I mean, are you going to create a separate branch
> or make master the -rc?
>
>  Creating a separate branch (which is what we do today, iiuc) makes it
> get less attention, freezing master for a certain period is the best
> way to stabilize.
>
>  Is this what you had in mind?
>   
What do people think?

One reason I branch is because some people care a bit less about 
releases so it makes the process non-disruptive to them.  If the other 
maintainers agreed though, I would certainly like to have the master 
branch essentially frozen for the week before the release.

-- 
Regards,

Anthony Liguori