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Cc: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Paul Brook wrote:
>>> Personally, I'd like to see much more frequent releases (every 3-6
>>> months).  I'm okay with not having complete features (like the
>>> dyngen->TCG conversion) or host regressions because I think there's
>>> value in having releases regularly compared to feature based releases.
>>>
>>> What do other people think?  I'd be willing to do the leg work of 
>>> releases.
>>>     
>>
>> Cutting releases is the easy. Making sure the tree is in a suitable 
>> state to be released is the hard bit.  Releases without good quality 
>> control are IMHO pointless.
>>   
> 
> Yeah, what I meant by leg work was doing deep testing and nagging people 
> to fix things up before a release.  Cutting a release is very simple.
> 
>> Given the speed of qemu development, I think 3 months is way too short 
>> for a release cycle.  You may as well just have everyone pull from SVN.
>>   
> 
> How do you feel about 6 months?

Shouldn't it be feature driven rather then time?

- Armin
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Anthony Liguori
> 
>> Paul
>>   
> 
> 
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