From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58467) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RKta0-0006N0-G3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:15:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RKtZv-00061W-Bh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:15:16 -0400 Received: from e7.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.137]:46902) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RKtZv-00060t-6Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:15:11 -0400 Received: from /spool/local by e7.ny.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:08:11 -0400 Received: from d03av06.boulder.ibm.com (d03av06.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.245]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id p9VF7XM6197670 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:07:34 -0400 Received: from d03av06.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av06.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id p9VF7QQb003546 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:07:26 -0600 Message-ID: <4EAEB9AD.6020908@us.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:07:25 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4EAEA278.7000901@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <4EAEA278.7000901@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] 1.0 Hard Freeze Logistics List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel , kvm-devel 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