From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mt4rY-0006kp-K3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:29:20 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mt4rT-0006f5-K1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:29:20 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49228 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mt4rT-0006eo-EX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:29:15 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:23914) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mt4rS-0000rv-V7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:29:15 -0400 Message-ID: <4AC3B166.8030401@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:28:38 +0200 From: Gerd Hoffmann MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0 References: <4AC29E4D.80707@us.ibm.com> <20090930103001.21aa7a8d@doriath> <4AC36F0C.8020400@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <4AC36F0C.8020400@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: kvm-devel , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , Luiz Capitulino , Blue Swirl , Paul Brook , "Edgar E. Iglesias" , Aurelien Jarno On 09/30/09 16:45, Anthony Liguori wrote: > One reason I branch is because some people care a bit less about > releases so it makes the process non-disruptive to them. If the other > maintainers agreed though, I would certainly like to have the master > branch essentially frozen for the week before the release. We had much longer disruptions without a release freeze, so why worry about a single week? One week freeze is short enougth that the disruption isn't a big issue. It will help testing the to-be-released code. Go for it. cheers, Gerd