Re: [Qemu-devel] Should we have a 2.0-rc3 ?

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 01:24:51PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> On 10.04.14 13:17, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >So far I know of at least three fixes which should probably
> >go into 2.0:
> >  * my fix for the configure stack-protector checks on MacOSX
> >  * MST's pull request updating the ACPI test blobs
> >  * MST says we need to update the hex files for ACPI too
> >    (otherwise you get a different ACPI blob depending on whether
> >     your build system had iasl or not, if I understand correctly)
> >
> >Are there any others?
> >
> >So we have two choices:
> >
> >(A) get those fixes into git today, and tag an rc3; that
> >would then need some testing time and presumably we'd hope
> >to tag it as the 2.0 release on Monday or Tuesday next week
> >
> >(B) say that the above are not worth fixing in 2.0 proper
> >and plan to do a 2.0.1 in a few weeks with the above plus
> >any other breakage that people find.
> >
> >Opinions?
> 
> I think the best way forward is to do both. Do an rc3 with _only_
> those patches. Wait until Tuesday and do the final GA tag there.
> 
> Then schedule a 2.0.1 in a few weeks. There will be bug fixes.
> 
> And don't apply last-minute fixes from mst in the future :).
> 
> 
> Alex

Sorry about that.
Though my last minute patches didn't actually break any stuff, they just
weren't complete :)

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MST