Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] QEMU 1.2.0 Release Schedule

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 06/03/2012 04:16 AM, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Anthony Liguori<anthony@codemonkey.ws>  wrote:
>> Summary: GA on September 1st, shorten feature freeze to 2.5 weeks.
>>
>> We've discussed a lot in the past moving to a quarterly release cycle.  More
>> frequent releases will allow distributions to more easily ship newer
>> versions of QEMU.
>
> I think the previous freeze was a bit long, mainly the problem is how
> to handle merging of different development trees (QOM vs. PPC for
> example). So 2,5 weeks could be nice.

Yes, I feel it was a little long also.

> But in the same way, if we now try three months' cycle and it turns
> out to be too short (vacations during summer in northern hemisphere),
> maybe we can try four months' cycle (3 releases/year) next year.

Absolutely.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>>
>> Here's the schedule (also available on the wiki):
>>
>> http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.2
>>
>> | 2011-06-01
>> | Beginning of 1.2 development phase
>> |-
>> | 2012-07-01
>> | [[Planning/Sprint|Sprint]] 1
>> |-
>> | 2012-08-01
>> | [[Planning/SoftFeatureFreeze|Soft feature freeze]].  Major features should
>> have initial code committed by this date.
>> |-
>> | 2012-08-15
>> | [[Planning/HardFeatureFreeze|Hard feature freeze]].  Tag v1.2.0-rc0, only
>> bug fixes committed after this point
>> |-
>> | 2012-08-22
>> | Tag v1.2.0-rc1
>> |-
>> | 2012-08-29
>> | Tag v1.2.0-rc2
>> |-
>> | 2012-09-01
>> | Tag v1.2.0
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Anthony Liguori
>>