From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52327) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SawTX-0001W6-8n for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2012 18:07:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SawTV-0002wr-3j for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2012 18:07:10 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f45.google.com ([209.85.210.45]:52220) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SawTU-0002vl-TT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2012 18:07:09 -0400 Received: by dadv2 with SMTP id v2so4638352dad.4 for ; Sat, 02 Jun 2012 15:07:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FCA8E86.4000808@codemonkey.ws> Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 06:07:02 +0800 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4FC9E241.5020305@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] QEMU 1.2.0 Release Schedule List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Blue Swirl Cc: qemu-devel On 06/03/2012 04:16 AM, Blue Swirl wrote: > On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> Summary: GA on September 1st, shorten feature freeze to 2.5 weeks. >> >> We've discussed a lot in the past moving to a quarterly release cycle. More >> frequent releases will allow distributions to more easily ship newer >> versions of QEMU. > > I think the previous freeze was a bit long, mainly the problem is how > to handle merging of different development trees (QOM vs. PPC for > example). So 2,5 weeks could be nice. Yes, I feel it was a little long also. > But in the same way, if we now try three months' cycle and it turns > out to be too short (vacations during summer in northern hemisphere), > maybe we can try four months' cycle (3 releases/year) next year. Absolutely. Regards, Anthony Liguori >> >> Here's the schedule (also available on the wiki): >> >> http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.2 >> >> | 2011-06-01 >> | Beginning of 1.2 development phase >> |- >> | 2012-07-01 >> | [[Planning/Sprint|Sprint]] 1 >> |- >> | 2012-08-01 >> | [[Planning/SoftFeatureFreeze|Soft feature freeze]]. Major features should >> have initial code committed by this date. >> |- >> | 2012-08-15 >> | [[Planning/HardFeatureFreeze|Hard feature freeze]]. Tag v1.2.0-rc0, only >> bug fixes committed after this point >> |- >> | 2012-08-22 >> | Tag v1.2.0-rc1 >> |- >> | 2012-08-29 >> | Tag v1.2.0-rc2 >> |- >> | 2012-09-01 >> | Tag v1.2.0 >> >> Regards, >> >> Anthony Liguori >>