From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MtQeg-0003N5-1F for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:45:30 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MtQeb-0003CP-Bw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:45:29 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42082 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MtQeb-0003CB-98 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:45:25 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.8]:61893) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MtQea-00023g-7w for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:45:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4AC4F8BF.8060805@mail.berlios.de> Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:45:19 +0200 From: Stefan Weil MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0 References: <4AC29E4D.80707@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <4AC29E4D.80707@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" Anthony Liguori schrieb: > Hi, > > Now that 0.11.0 is behind us, it's time to start thinking about 0.12.0. > > I'd like to do a few things different this time around. I don't think > the -rc process went very well as I don't think we got more testing > out of it. I'd like to shorten the timeline for 0.12.0 a good bit. > The 0.10 stable tree got pretty difficult to maintain toward the end > of the cycle. We also had a pretty huge amount of change between 0.10 > and 0.11 so I think a shorter cycle is warranted. > > 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. > > I'd also like to try to enumerate some features for this release. > Here's a short list of things I expect to see for this release > (target-i386 centric). Please add or comment on items that you'd > either like to see in the release or are planning on working on. > > o VMState conversion -- I expect most of the pc target to be completed > o qdev conversion -- I hope that we'll get most of the pc target > completely converted to qdev > o storage live migration > o switch to SeaBIOS (need to finish porting features from Bochs) > o switch to gPXE (need to resolve slirp tftp server issue) > o KSM integration > o in-kernel APIC support for KVM > o guest SMP support for KVM > o updates to the default pc machine type > > Please add to this list and I'll collect it all and post it somewhere. > > Thanks! > * VDI block driver * Update eepro100 driver * Fix VNC support for Windows Stefan