Re: [PATCH for-4.5 v7 0/7] Xen VMware tools support

[Don Slutz <dslutz@verizon.com>]

On 10/16/14 08:22, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 16.10.14 at 14:10, <dslutz@verizon.com> wrote:
>> On 10/16/14 04:12, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>> On 02.10.14 at 23:30, <dslutz@verizon.com> wrote:
>>> Just for the record - I do not see this as warranting a release exception.
>>> The effort to get this in place was started way too late, and shouldn't
>>> be rushed close to or already beyond the feature freeze point.
>> Being first posted on Sept 1, 2014:
>>
>> From: Don Slutz <dslutz@verizon.com>
>> To: <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
>> Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 11:33:46 -0400
>> Message-ID: <1409585629-25840-1-git-send-email-dslutz@verizon.com>
>> Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] Xen VMware tools support
>>
>> and a feature freeze of 10th September 2014, I would not expect to
>> need a release exception.
> I hope you didn't mean this seriously: That might have been okay
> for a feature that can be expected to not need a lot of discussion
> and is relatively limited in the amount of code it touches. But
> generally, and particularly for anything larger, please get used to
> starting the work and discussion early, not near the end of a
> development cycle.

Clearly I did not understand this correctly.  Sorry about that.  I did 
attempt
to start this discussion early (December 13, 2013), but failed (do to other
things) to post the v2 until Sept 1, 2014.

    -Don Slutz

> Jan
>