Re: Release plan for 0.12.0

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> As a downstream packager of qemu-kvm, I thought I'd mention that the
> next Ubuntu cycle is now public:
>  * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseSchedule
>
> The key date here is Feature Freeze, which is February 25, 2010.
> That's the point by which we'd need to have a new qemu-kvm (which of
> course is downstream of qemu) package in Ubuntu for the LTS 10.04
> release in April 2010.
>   

If we did a December release, then the 0.13 release would probably be in 
the April time frame.  Not really ideal for Lucid so I'd recommend that 
you ship 0.12.  The good news would be that 0.12 should be very stable 
by Feb 25th and since Lucid is an LTS, that's probably a Good Thing.

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori