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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing,
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To: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 04:23:59PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:51:03 +0100
> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi; I usually let people forget about releases for a month or
> > so before bringing this topic up, but:
> > 
> > (1) do we want to call the next release 2.13, or something else?
> > There's no particular reason to bump to 3.0 except some combination of
> >  * if we keep going like this we'll get up to 2.42, which starts to
> >    get silly
> >  * Linus-style "avoid being too predictable"
> >  * triskaidekaphobia
> > but maybe we should anyway?
> > 
> 
> Do we care for machine versions to stick to QEMU versions ? I ask,
> because we've already added a pseries-2.13 machine type (in master
> since David's latest pull req). No big deal though if we have to
> turn it into pseries-3.0 I guess...

We don't promise machine ABI compat for git master snapshots, so renaming
is fine provided it is done before release.


Regards,
Daniel
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