Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] QEMU 0.14.0 release plan

["Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>]

On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 16:06 -0600, Brian Jackson wrote:
> On Monday, November 29, 2010 11:42:49 am Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 0.13 was a mess of a release (largely due to my lack of time) and I'd
> > like to get us back onto a predictable schedule.
> > 
> > Here's what I propose:
> > 
> > 12/6 - fork off stable-0.14 tree; simultaneously release qemu-0.14.0-rc0
> 
> 
> Have you considered a frozen master style release like other projects use? 
> (Linux kernel, etc.)
> 
> Every project I follow that does this "branch stable keep master moving" 
> release thing has terrible releases every time. Patches don't make it back 
> into stable,etc... Basically a lot of the same stuff we saw for 0.13.
> 
> 

Being fimilar with the kernel development process but not fimilar with
pre qemu-kvm.git development process, I would tend to agree with you
here..

Aside from that question, the one thing that is really useful in the
kernel development world is having an automated process to CC
stable@kernel.org in order to signal that a bugfix commit from 'master'
should be propigated down into stable trees and/or branches works very
well.  This really simplfies the bug backport process, compared to say
each needing to do this by hand across a number of old stable versions.

This is how Greg-KH and kernel subsystem maintainers do things, and the
system works quite well with Greg tracking a handful of rolling stable
releases.  I am not sure if Anthony already has such an automated system
in place for QEMU yet, but I think it would really be helpful for
propigating master bugfixes back into stable code.

Best,

--nab