From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34421) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3jrE-0001yZ-8P for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 07:16:33 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3jrA-0006dz-6d for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 07:16:32 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:53622) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3jr9-0006bl-VP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 07:16:28 -0500 Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 17:46:05 +0530 From: Amit Shah Message-ID: <20151201121605.GD27993@grmbl.mre> References: <20151124045825.GB8335@grmbl.mre> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151124045825.GB8335@grmbl.mre> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Highlighting changes in QEMU 2.5 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu list Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, mst@redhat.com, jcody@redhat.com, mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk, armbru@redhat.com, jcmvbkbc@gmail.com, kraxel@redhat.com, dgibson@redhat.com, mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com, berto@igalia.com, quintela@redhat.com, agraf@suse.de, borntraeger@de.ibm.com, sw@weilnetz.de, marcandre.lureau@redhat.com, leon.alrae@imgtec.com, jasowang@redhat.com, lvivier@redhat.com, thuth@redhat.com, ehabkost@redhat.com, stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, mjt@tls.msk.ru, riku.voipio@iki.fi, alex.williamson@redhat.com, stefanha@redhat.com, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, jsnow@redhat.com, rth@twiddle.net, kwolf@redhat.com, kbastian@mail.uni-paderborn.de, mreitz@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, afaerber@suse.de, aurelien@aurel32.net Ping. I haven't received any responses so far, please let me know if you're planning on doing this. Thanks, On (Tue) 24 Nov 2015 [10:28:25], Amit Shah wrote: > Hello, > > The 2.5 release is close - and I'm collecting a list of notable > changes and features once more. The video made for the 2.4 release > [1] was popular, and I'm volunteering to make one for 2.5 as well. In > addition, we need more feature pages, and there's a template at [2] > that you can use to base feature pages off. > > I've CC'ed maintainers whose pull reqs got merged for the 2.5 cycle, > but this is not restricted to maintainers only - feature owners are > welcome to submit their videos and author feature pages as well -- > please coordinate with the maintainers who sent pull reqs so there's > no duplication of content for the video. > > Please get me the videos before Monday, 7 December, and I can then get > the final video ready in time for the 10th December release date. > > For the feature pages, please link them to the ChangeLog page at [3]. > > Details: > > This time, we can actually put the video out on release day (even > within the release announcement?) since we have a bit of time on > hands. Can you please go through the notable enhancements in your > subsystems for the 2.5 release, and send me a short (max. 2 mins) > video highlighting the changes in 2.5, and optionally something about > where we're headed in the future with those changes? A brief note on > how those changes impact users (directly, or via higher level > software, e.g. openstack) will be useful. > > The video can be shot using a phone camera (preferably the main > camera), or a webcam / laptop cam. For consistency, it's better if > the videos are at least 720p (higher the better!), and have as less > background noise as possible. I can remove the background noise using > audacity, but that makes the main voice sound robotic, so it's better > not to resort to that. > > Please upload to some file sharing service (preferably no login > required), and send me a pointer. > > > Additionally, more search-friendly text-based feature pages help > users, testers and future contributors a lot, so please create feature > pages for major changes, and include as much information as possible. > The template at [2] should be a good start to help thinking about what > information to include. > > > [1] http://log.amitshah.net/2015/09/qemu-maintainers-on-the-2-4-release/ > [2] http://qemu-project.org/NewFeatureTemplate > [3] http://qemu-project.org/ChangeLog/2.5 > > Thanks, > > Amit > > Amit