Re: [Qemu-devel] Cutting a new QEMU release

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Laurent Desnogues wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I'm totally for it.
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> So am I, but who will test user mode and more generally (user and system)
> what is the test procedure?
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I'd like to approach this gently.  Historically, there's been no formal 
release process.  I'm not inclined to start out by introducing any sort 
of heavy weight procedure.

I'll poke things as best I can over the next couple weeks.  I encourage 
everyone else to do the same.  I'll keep track of what's working and 
what's broken and make it available publicly.  At some point, we can 
decide as if things are too embarrassing to release or not :-)

> For instance someone (Andzrej?) mentionned  ARM in system mode is half
> slower than it was before TCG.  Also the ARM target needs some fixing.
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> Perhaps doing at least one release candidate to get feedback (and focus on
> fixing reported bugs) would be appropriate.
>   

A release doesn't have to be perfect to be useful.  I think what matters 
most is whether something is likely to be fixed in the reasonably near 
future.  We're going to have some regressions compared to 0.9.1.  There 
are a number of platforms that are no longer supported (ia64 and s390, 
for instance) but we could wait another year and I doubt these features 
would appear.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Cheers,
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> Laurent
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