From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KsJUU-0005zp-FD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:49:50 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KsJUS-0005zU-6g for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:49:49 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56447 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KsJUR-0005zL-SZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:49:47 -0400 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([65.74.133.4]:45730) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KsJUR-0005W8-DZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:49:47 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] release date of qemu 0.9.2? Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:49:42 +0100 References: <200810211610.44261.paul@codesourcery.com> <48FDF44A.2010302@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <48FDF44A.2010302@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810211649.43058.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org > >> Personally, I'd like to see much more frequent releases (every 3-6 > >> months). I'm okay with not having complete features (like the > >> dyngen->TCG conversion) or host regressions because I think there's > >> value in having releases regularly compared to feature based releases. > >> > >> What do other people think? I'd be willing to do the leg work of > >> releases. > > > > Cutting releases is the easy. Making sure the tree is in a suitable state > > to be released is the hard bit. Releases without good quality control > > are IMHO pointless. > > Yeah, what I meant by leg work was doing deep testing and nagging people > to fix things up before a release. Cutting a release is very simple. Ok. > > Given the speed of qemu development, I think 3 months is way too short > > for a release cycle. You may as well just have everyone pull from SVN. > > How do you feel about 6 months? I think switching to a hard time driven release schedule would be a mistake. In particular I think we should complete the TCG conversion before the next release. That said, 6 months between releases may be a reasonable starting point. Paul