From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58806) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bA0hD-0001BJ-H7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 16:00:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bA0h9-0005c4-D6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 16:00:23 -0400 Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.156.1]:42684 helo=mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bA0h9-0005bs-5l for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 16:00:19 -0400 Received: from pps.filterd (m0048827.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.11/8.16.0.11) with SMTP id u56Jwp46046217 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2016 16:00:17 -0400 Message-Id: <201606062000.u56Jwp46046217@mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com> Received: from e06smtp12.uk.ibm.com (e06smtp12.uk.ibm.com [195.75.94.108]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 23dd9udfs2-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 16:00:17 -0400 Received: from localhost by e06smtp12.uk.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Mon, 6 Jun 2016 21:00:14 +0100 Received: from b06cxnps3074.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06relay09.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.109.194]) by d06dlp03.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E62D1B08061 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2016 21:01:16 +0100 (BST) Received: from d06av11.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av11.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.37.252]) by b06cxnps3074.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id u56K0BSx54919206 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2016 20:00:11 GMT Received: from d06av11.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d06av11.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id u56K0BXd007266 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2016 14:00:11 -0600 References: From: Christian Borntraeger Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 22:00:10 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU 2.7 release schedule? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell , QEMU Developers On 06/06/2016 05:34 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > Well, time to make a decision about our release date for 2.7. > > If you start out with "let's put the release in august like it > usually is but not so close to KVM Forum (24-26 Aug) as to > be likely to slip in to it", then you get something like: > > Jun 21 softfreeze > Jul 12 hardfreeze, rc0 > Jul 19 rc1 > Jul 26 rc2 > Aug 02 rc3 > Aug 09 final release 2.7.0 > > That's with a 3-week softfreeze again, and puts softfreeze > in two weeks' time. > > Anybody got any better suggestions? What about making the last rc at KVM forum, get all maintainers together in a room for 2 hours and let everybody test the last rc on their favourite platform? If that does not work out (room/timeslot whatever) your proposal would be fine with me. It would be a relatively short cycle, though (which I think is good). Christian