From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsomH-000686-MF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:18:49 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsomD-00066W-Eh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:18:49 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49864 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MsomD-00066S-B4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:18:45 -0400 Received: from e7.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.137]:33590) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MsomD-0002jO-39 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:18:45 -0400 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e7.ny.us.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n8U2GGe7022700 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:16:16 -0400 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (d01av01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.215]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id n8U2Ifhr220668 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:18:41 -0400 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av01.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n8U2IfbG021274 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:18:41 -0400 Message-ID: <4AC2BFFF.7070407@us.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:18:39 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4AC29E4D.80707@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Release plan for 0.12.0 List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Dustin Kirkland Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , kvm-devel , Paul Brook Dustin Kirkland wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> 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. >> > > As a downstream packager of qemu-kvm, I thought I'd mention that the > next Ubuntu cycle is now public: > * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseSchedule > > The key date here is Feature Freeze, which is February 25, 2010. > That's the point by which we'd need to have a new qemu-kvm (which of > course is downstream of qemu) package in Ubuntu for the LTS 10.04 > release in April 2010. > If we did a December release, then the 0.13 release would probably be in the April time frame. Not really ideal for Lucid so I'd recommend that you ship 0.12. The good news would be that 0.12 should be very stable by Feb 25th and since Lucid is an LTS, that's probably a Good Thing. -- Regards, Anthony Liguori