From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35480) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpVO5-0004sh-Ee for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 03:04:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpVNz-0005wX-CW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 03:04:08 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:32794) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpVNz-0005wS-5z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 03:04:03 -0400 Message-ID: <1475132640.25046.13.camel@redhat.com> From: Gerd Hoffmann Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 09:04:00 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20160928180610.GA17246@stefanha-x1.localdomain> References: <20160928180610.GA17246@stefanha-x1.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU 2.8 release schedule List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Hajnoczi Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Peter Maydell , Paolo Bonzini Hi, > Following previous discussions [1], the rules for the softfreeze will be > changed in the QEMU 2.8 release cycle to bound the length of the freeze > period better. >=20 > Previously patch series posted on the mailing list prior to softfreeze > could be included in maintainers' pull requests during softfreeze. Maybe we should call "softfreeze" simple "freeze" then to make things more clear. Any features must land pull requests before freeze, period. We don't really have a separate hard freeze any more: After (soft-) freeze only bugfixes are allowed. cheers, Gerd