From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsmX7-0005Uc-Py for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:55:01 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsmX2-0005Qz-UT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:55:01 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37382 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MsmX2-0005Qm-Pl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:54:56 -0400 Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.141]:39849) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MsmX2-0006ah-EJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:54:56 -0400 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e1.ny.us.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n8TNrrgH014209 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:53:53 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id n8TNssOc257194 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:54:54 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n8TNssi3026756 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:54:54 -0400 Message-ID: <4AC29E4D.80707@us.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:54:53 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0 List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" Cc: Paul Brook , kvm-devel Hi, Now that 0.11.0 is behind us, it's time to start thinking about 0.12.0. I'd like to do a few things different this time around. I don't think the -rc process went very well as I don't think we got more testing out of it. I'd like to shorten the timeline for 0.12.0 a good bit. The 0.10 stable tree got pretty difficult to maintain toward the end of the cycle. We also had a pretty huge amount of change between 0.10 and 0.11 so I think a shorter cycle is warranted. I think aiming for early to mid-December would give us roughly a 3 month cycle and would align well with some of the Linux distribution cycles. I'd like to limit things to a single -rc that lasted only for about a week. This is enough time to fix most of the obvious issues I think. I'd also like to try to enumerate some features for this release. Here's a short list of things I expect to see for this release (target-i386 centric). Please add or comment on items that you'd either like to see in the release or are planning on working on. o VMState conversion -- I expect most of the pc target to be completed o qdev conversion -- I hope that we'll get most of the pc target completely converted to qdev o storage live migration o switch to SeaBIOS (need to finish porting features from Bochs) o switch to gPXE (need to resolve slirp tftp server issue) o KSM integration o in-kernel APIC support for KVM o guest SMP support for KVM o updates to the default pc machine type Please add to this list and I'll collect it all and post it somewhere. Thanks! -- Regards, Anthony Liguori