Re: [Qemu-devel] Proposal for 2.9 release schedule

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 03:15:58PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Considering that Easter is on April 16th, we'd probably want to have the
> release before that date even in case of a slip.
> 
> On the other hand, the Christmas / New Year break here means that we'll
> have to make the development time 1-2 week shorter in practice.
> 
> 2016-02-21     2.9 soft freeze
> 2016-03-07     hard freeze / rc0
> 2016-03-28     rc3 (+3 weeks)
> 2016-04-04     rc4 or release
> 2016-04-11     release (if rc4)
> 
> One possibility is to make soft freeze happen a few days later.
> Peter/Stefan, how did the experiment go with the new rules for soft
> freeze?  Is it worth repeating it for 2.9 and would it make sense to
> shorten soft freeze given the new rules?

I would shorten the soft freeze by 1 week.

Overall the 2.8 release went smoothly.  We got unlucky right at the end
with a release blocker but otherwise it was fine.

Stefan

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