From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50266) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fE3mg-0003WO-AL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2018 22:15:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fE3md-0001Ko-5e for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2018 22:15:50 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.11.71.1]:43233) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fE3mc-0001EX-H8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2018 22:15:47 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 11:04:30 +1000 From: David Gibson Message-ID: <20180503010430.GF13229@umbus.fritz.box> References: <20180430162359.5c963c50@bahia.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yRA+Bmk8aPhU85Qt" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180430162359.5c963c50@bahia.lan> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Greg Kurz Cc: Peter Maydell , QEMU Developers , Stefan Hajnoczi --yRA+Bmk8aPhU85Qt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 04:23:59PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:51:03 +0100 > Peter Maydell wrote: >=20 > > Hi; I usually let people forget about releases for a month or > > so before bringing this topic up, but: > >=20 > > (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? > >=20 >=20 > 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 definitely want this to match the overall release name, so we'll need to change it if we decide on something other than 2.13. >=20 > > (2) release timing: > > * usual schedule would give us a next release mid-to-late August > > * unless I can persuade Stefan to do the release management this > > cycle we might need to wind that in by a couple of weeks so > > it's definitely done by the middle of August, to avoid a clash > > with a personal commitment > > * so probably hardfreeze 10th July, softfreeze 3rd July > >=20 > > (3) retrospective, lessons learned &c > > * please remember that if every single submaintainer submits > > a pull request on the morning of an RC, it is physically > > not possible for me to process all those pulls in time to > > tag the RC that day. We had several RCs which got delayed > > by a day because of this; please try to submit earlier > > rather than later... > > * provide your opinions here ? > >=20 > > thanks > > -- PMM > >=20 >=20 --=20 David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson --yRA+Bmk8aPhU85Qt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEdfRlhq5hpmzETofcbDjKyiDZs5IFAlrqYB0ACgkQbDjKyiDZ s5KujQ//Qru9DJqakcTTTCojXIFOuIPCGYabmGN6H7jUsxsXPxqrj1h3Xgzav2WC 5ONIXouemNAFB/tz6BW1Ni49tZ6zpRvCua+rS0pN0U2OFroX58bWyAz2i+y2vMTS DcRnev1B7utre7Bbh7kSN3uJ320hQ1eEuUV1kbiA1d6xicfKO8TvQKBvrPXo4NRz 13BWaisQdF9lw2PUKuxZ4ms7bR8aUeXKyl+gvZvBZWWeQn0w2kPHvoNDRNU5o8Vs apqA/a5LGZA0xthjZa1ZilJGPYVusvJuucDSWMX0zuk0npN4dMeY3STtaIFepYkt GH4sdfXTcc+Sg+049qfEZoAVVrvLCdD6s9sJOdWLUU9x2G6xCaFUrSJpLfy0l5bo Bu0vzEiCGGefeapzvNcETz3gSmO51EE59P9xBE44M+gPPtPvB9qKlm21sGN/7sN+ T9quvivhBwlHW9nIwYLscLwgE1X4bubqpVOTJhnCMvvTAYuMyhesEckmPWhdW9B/ BWa210u4jYH4F444oDdBasGAKNj+mNqLEUHJJulBysC7j4cjt7PmfFezPt3Ztyh9 xuZMQxI7gMDQJmfBTm8SJOv3AjUUScGdGCOLX41AX+mudYm7AofeGSK1L0mEgDlL GZEs8NzXF66eDyukvDae71uFn99PMrQXDKIJ3g+nwDlg1fanc6A= =bHJk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yRA+Bmk8aPhU85Qt--