[Qemu-devel] 1.0 Hard Freeze Logistics

[Qemu-devel] 1.0 Hard Freeze Logistics

[Anthony Liguori]

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

Re: [Qemu-devel] 1.0 Hard Freeze Logistics

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> To make the Test Day more successful, please sign up to test a specific area
> on the Test[3] wiki page.
[...]
> [3] http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.0/Testing

I just signed up for several block and tracing tests and encourage
everyone to get involved.

If you're looking for something to do you can test CD-ROM support.
Both host CD-ROM passthrough (/dev/cdrom) and ISO CD-ROM need testing,
especially media change (eject and changing the CD-ROM).  There have
been many code changes in the area and we need to make sure things are
working correctly :).

Stefan

Re: [Qemu-devel] 1.0 Hard Freeze Logistics

[Anthony Liguori]

On 10/31/2011 08:28 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 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).

Er, November 1st.  I have no idea what was going through my mind.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> 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