From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53037) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpavD-0007NU-OS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 08:58:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpav9-0000oK-Qx for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 08:58:43 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-x243.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::243]:36703) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpav9-0000oG-IZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 08:58:39 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-x243.google.com with SMTP id b184so10610708wma.3 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 05:58:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 13:58:37 +0100 From: Stefan Hajnoczi Message-ID: <20160929125837.GC5916@stefanha-x1.localdomain> References: <20160928180610.GA17246@stefanha-x1.localdomain> <1475132640.25046.13.camel@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1475132640.25046.13.camel@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU 2.8 release schedule List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Peter Maydell , Paolo Bonzini --lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 09:04:00AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, >=20 > > Following previous discussions [1], the rules for the softfreeze will be > > changed in the QEMU 2.8 release cycle to bound the length of the freeze > > period better. > >=20 > > Previously patch series posted on the mailing list prior to softfreeze > > could be included in maintainers' pull requests during softfreeze. >=20 > Maybe we should call "softfreeze" simple "freeze" then to make things > more clear. Any features must land pull requests before freeze, period. > We don't really have a separate hard freeze any more: After (soft-) > freeze only bugfixes are allowed. Good point. I've updated the wiki with a warning to avoid confusion for this release. After this release we can rename it. http://qemu-project.org/Planning/SoftFeatureFreeze Stefan --lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJX7Q/9AAoJEJykq7OBq3PIgrkIALOtP4eGOyybdBdO8bTd5iOs uo7sCfbwsWAgSlPtXKfLjNffoJ/Jn2PreAjfwOEcFcFUzF8UTDFdVWxk9znL23ts qcmyzkcuD3MbRe1MqcFOb9Kof2w9sZQ/rpoiocm63WNNQkzHf37beI+y70lSQC/v 3TMoAF5XRDHy8o2cqYF9qO9g6TYldAbC5GgG4y/CriQOh3N83hZdLvAQmcLVO2zx 3TcgwpjSbUeKJxm+VHSL5YaLC1laS2KGoMzf57/pF2QYIq+hisv2xx3Kh+jbiUok egPPq4rTyMlecnqAZbM30Xb/5xVL6eZL86lkPfrFIsiHLSjF7yx0gyuEDqIzP4M= =sW/B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM--