Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] QEMU 2.10 release schedule

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>]

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On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 04:18:41PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
> 
> > On 30 May 2017 at 11:11, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Here is a first stab at the next release schedule:
> >>
> >> Beginning of development phase: 2017-04-20
> >> Soft feature freeze: 2017-07-18
> >> -rc0: 2017-07-25
> >> -rc1: 2017-08-01
> >> -rc2: 2017-08-08
> >> -rc3: 2017-08-15
> >> -rc4: 2017-08-22
> >
> > Are we going with the same definitions of soft/hard freeze
> > as last time around?
> >
> > (I thought last release was a complete mess in terms of
> > getting code in in an orderly manner for the freeze,
> > personally...)
> 
> Do we want to have a broad plan for the order things need to go in
> before the feature freeze or stick to a first to the gate approach?
> 
> Obviously we don't want to stall the process waiting for delayed series
> that might end up getting dropped but having the broad sketches might
> make it easier for developers to prioritise what patches queues to drain
> first?

Any further thoughts on this?  Otherwise we can default to the way
things were done in previous releases.

Stefan

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