From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsrZf-000287-D0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:17:59 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsrZa-00025b-EJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:17:58 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51243 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MsrZa-00025T-36 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:17:54 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:14019) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MsrZZ-0006n5-LQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:17:53 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:47:03 +0530 From: Amit Shah Message-ID: <20090930051703.GE28188@amit-x200.redhat.com> References: <4AC29E4D.80707@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AC29E4D.80707@us.ibm.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Release plan for 0.12.0 List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , kvm-devel , Paul Brook On (Tue) Sep 29 2009 [18:54:53], Anthony Liguori wrote: > Hi, > > Now that 0.11.0 is behind us, it's time to start thinking about 0.12.0. > > I'd like to do a few things different this time around. I don't think > the -rc process went very well as I don't think we got more testing out > of it. I'd like to shorten the timeline for 0.12.0 a good bit. The > 0.10 stable tree got pretty difficult to maintain toward the end of the > cycle. We also had a pretty huge amount of change between 0.10 and 0.11 > so I think a shorter cycle is warranted. > > 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. > > I'd also like to try to enumerate some features for this release. > Here's a short list of things I expect to see for this release > (target-i386 centric). Please add or comment on items that you'd either > like to see in the release or are planning on working on. > > o VMState conversion -- I expect most of the pc target to be completed > o qdev conversion -- I hope that we'll get most of the pc target > completely converted to qdev > o storage live migration > o switch to SeaBIOS (need to finish porting features from Bochs) > o switch to gPXE (need to resolve slirp tftp server issue) > o KSM integration > o in-kernel APIC support for KVM > o guest SMP support for KVM > o updates to the default pc machine type o multiport virtio-console support > Please add to this list and I'll collect it all and post it somewhere. Thanks, Amit