Re: 1.0 Hard Freeze Logistics

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

On 10/31/2011 08:28 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here are the logistics for the upcoming 1.0 hard freeze. All dates are reflected
> in the wiki[1].
>
> If you're a contributor and you've sent a series before the soft freeze
> deadline, you've already done everything you need to do so sit back and enjoy
> gorge yourself on Halloween candy.
>
> If you're a submaintainer, the deadline for PULL requests for 1.0 hard freeze
> will be EOD tomorrow (May 1st).

Er, November 1st.  I have no idea what was going through my mind.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> I encourage all submaintainers to spend today and tomorrow reviewing any
> outstanding patches on the mailing list. I will do the same.
>
> Once everything is processed, I'll update VERSION, and tag v1.0-rc0. I will not
> upload a -rc0 tarball since this is basically a git snapshot. Unlike previous
> releases, we will do this stable development in HEAD.
>
> Our first release candidate will be tagged and released on November 7th (next
> Tuesday). I'll do the release that Monday evening so that the -rc1 build is
> available for out Test Day[2].
>
> To make the Test Day more successful, please sign up to test a specific area on
> the Test[3] wiki page.
>
> We have a fairly long -rc cycle for this release so I expect submaintainers will
> continue to maintain patches in their tree. I also think it would be good to set
> up a -next staging tree but we can discuss that more in another thread.
>
> [1] http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.0
> [2] http://mid.gmane.org/4EA94D53.3000707@redhat.com
> [3] http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.0/Testing
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori