From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: Stable branch releases? Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:39:20 -0600 Message-ID: <49908668.1070909@us.ibm.com> References: <49908368.4010707@us.ibm.com> <49908557.7050504@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.151]:55964 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751784AbZBITjo (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2009 14:39:44 -0500 Received: from d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.227]) by e33.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n19Jcaf6030262 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 12:38:36 -0700 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (d03av03.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.169]) by d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.1) with ESMTP id n19Jdhu6208972 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 12:39:43 -0700 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n19Jdh9F011652 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 12:39:43 -0700 In-Reply-To: <49908557.7050504@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Avi Kivity wrote: > Anthony Liguori wrote: >> Hi Avi, >> >> Since a number of people are using the maint/2.6.29 branch, perhaps >> we could start doing releases from it? For instance, a kvm-74.1, >> kvm-74.2, etc. set of releases. Likewise, when we start >> maint/2.6.30, a new set of stable releases could follow. > > Yes, I want to do that. Ok, is there anything standing in the way of doing this? What would prevent us from doing a stable release in the next few days even? Is there anything we can do to help? > One question is what to call these releases, though. I'd like to see it be named kvm-XX.y or something like that to keep a close association between what the base release was. For instance, you wouldn't expect HPET support in kvm-74.3 but you may expect it if it were kvm-stable-3 or something. > I'd like to keep the kernel part synced with 2.6.x.y for as long as > that's maintained. How do you deal with maint/2.6.29 right now in the kvm.git tree? Do you sync that with the 2.6.x.y releases? > Perhaps we can call these releases kvm-stable-x.y (though it would > cause confusion with kvm-xx). If you're just suggesting introducing -stable, it really doesn't matter to me. I don't think it's necessary FWIW. > So, users of kvm-stable-x.y would be running the same code as users > running Linux-2.6.x.y with the bundled kvm modules. I think the majority of utility in the release numbers are associated with the userspace bits (maybe I'm a bit bias :-)). I don't think most users care about the differences between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29 kernel bits, but the different between kvm-74 and kvm-83 is very important feature wise. Regards, Anthony Liguori