Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

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

Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 09/30/2009 01:54 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> 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
>
> Machine monitor protocol.

If we're going to support the protocol for 0.12, I'd like to most of the 
code merged by the end of October.

-- 
Regards,

Anthony Liguori