[Qemu-devel] 1.0 Hard Freeze Logistics

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Hi,

Here are the logistics for the upcoming 1.0 hard freeze.  All dates are 
reflected in the wiki[1].

If you're a contributor and you've sent a series before the soft freeze 
deadline, you've already done everything you need to do so sit back and enjoy 
gorge yourself on Halloween candy.

If you're a submaintainer, the deadline for PULL requests for 1.0 hard freeze 
will be EOD tomorrow (May 1st).

I encourage all submaintainers to spend today and tomorrow reviewing any 
outstanding patches on the mailing list.  I will do the same.

Once everything is processed, I'll update VERSION, and tag v1.0-rc0.  I will not 
upload a -rc0 tarball since this is basically a git snapshot.  Unlike previous 
releases, we will do this stable development in HEAD.

Our first release candidate will be tagged and released on November 7th (next 
Tuesday).  I'll do the release that Monday evening so that the -rc1 build is 
available for out Test Day[2].

To make the Test Day more successful, please sign up to test a specific area on 
the Test[3] wiki page.

We have a fairly long -rc cycle for this release so I expect submaintainers will 
continue to maintain patches in their tree.  I also think it would be good to 
set up a -next staging tree but we can discuss that more in another thread.

[1] http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.0
[2] http://mid.gmane.org/4EA94D53.3000707@redhat.com
[3] http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.0/Testing

Regards,

Anthony Liguori