From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Planning for the 0.11.0 release Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:47:58 -0500 Message-ID: <4A40F92E.1070108@us.ibm.com> References: <4A401A65.3080804@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , kvm-devel To: Blue Swirl Return-path: Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:51745 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752653AbZFWPsB (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:48:01 -0400 Received: from d01relay06.pok.ibm.com (d01relay06.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.116]) by e5.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n5NFfhVL029135 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:41:43 -0400 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (d03av01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.167]) by d01relay06.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.2) with ESMTP id n5NFm3Z41216582 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:48:03 -0400 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n5NFlx5Y006483 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:48:00 -0600 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Blue Swirl wrote: > On 6/23/09, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> It's getting to be about the time to start thinking about the 0.11.0 >> release. 0.10.0 was released on March 2nd so following with the 6 month >> release cycle, that would put 0.11.0 at September 2nd. >> >> Based on the experiences with the stable releases, here's what I'd >> recommend: >> >> o On July 15th, fork master -> stable-0.11 >> o Change version to 0.10.90 >> o Release qemu-0.11.0-rc1 >> o Release additional -rcN releases every 1-2 weeks >> o Introduce a new maintainer for stable-0.10 (via git pulls) >> o At least 1 week before release, hopefully we'll have the final -rcN that >> we can then declare 0.11.0. >> > > Sounds OK. I think OpenBIOS releases should follow similar schedule, > maybe even with matching SVN tags (1.1-rc1 for 0.11.0-rc1 etc). > > >> I think we should really try hard to make these dates. I only have a few >> things that I would like to see happen before forking stable-0.11. Namely: >> >> o Setup qemu.org infrastructure (git hosting, wiki) >> o Setup qemu bug tracker (see next mail) >> o Include all ROM source code in tree via git submodules. This is a major >> headache for distributors and I think it's important to resolve before our >> next release. >> > > I think this is great, but OpenBIOS still uses Subversion. Can git use > SVN submodules for example? > No, but it's not too hard to make svn->git bridges. Regards, Anthony Liguori -- Regards, Anthony Liguori