From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Msys9-0007f1-2i for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:05:33 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Msys3-0007co-3y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:05:30 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54725 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Msyrz-0007cS-CY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:05:24 -0400 Received: from e9.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.139]:46199) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Msyry-0007IZ-Vy for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:05:23 -0400 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e9.ny.us.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n8UD2IOl001298 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:02:18 -0400 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (d01av01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.215]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id n8UD5MEi164610 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:05:22 -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 n8UD5LhD014998 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:05:21 -0400 Message-ID: <4AC3578C.8070105@us.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:05:16 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0 References: <4AC29E4D.80707@us.ibm.com> <4AC2FD93.80208@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4AC2FD93.80208@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Avi Kivity Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , kvm-devel , Paul Brook Avi Kivity wrote: > On 09/30/2009 01:54 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> 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 > > Machine monitor protocol. If we're going to support the protocol for 0.12, I'd like to most of the code merged by the end of October. -- Regards, Anthony Liguori