From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Release plan for 0.12.0 Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:54:53 -0500 Message-ID: <4AC29E4D.80707@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel , Paul Brook To: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" Return-path: Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:59564 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752858AbZI2Xyv (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:54:51 -0400 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e5.ny.us.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n8TNjfts032033 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:45:41 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id n8TNssaJ212620 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:54:54 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n8TNssi5026756 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:54:54 -0400 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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! -- Regards, Anthony Liguori