From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0 Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:45:32 -0500 Message-ID: <4AC36F0C.8020400@us.ibm.com> References: <4AC29E4D.80707@us.ibm.com> <20090930103001.21aa7a8d@doriath> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , Paul Brook , kvm-devel , Aurelien Jarno , Andrzej Zaborowski , "Edgar E. Iglesias" , Blue Swirl , malc To: Luiz Capitulino Return-path: Received: from e39.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.160]:33960 "EHLO e39.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751863AbZI3OqG (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:46:06 -0400 Received: from d03relay03.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay03.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.228]) by e39.co.us.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n8UEeWMe009040 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:40:32 -0600 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (d03av03.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.169]) by d03relay03.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id n8UEjrpb053440 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:46:03 -0600 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 n8UEjXrH001653 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:45:34 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20090930103001.21aa7a8d@doriath> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Luiz Capitulino wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:54:53 -0500 > Anthony Liguori wrote: > > >> 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. >> > > How do you plan to do it? I mean, are you going to create a separate branch > or make master the -rc? > > Creating a separate branch (which is what we do today, iiuc) makes it > get less attention, freezing master for a certain period is the best > way to stabilize. > > Is this what you had in mind? > What do people think? One reason I branch is because some people care a bit less about releases so it makes the process non-disruptive to them. If the other maintainers agreed though, I would certainly like to have the master branch essentially frozen for the week before the release. -- Regards, Anthony Liguori