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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:21:53 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for 2014-04-01
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To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= <afaerber@suse.de>, quintela@redhat.com, KVM devel mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, qemu list <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, Bruce Rogers <brogers@suse.com>

On 31/03/14 12:51, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 31.03.2014 12:40, schrieb Juan Quintela:
>>
>> Please, send any topic that you are interested in covering.
> 
> I would like to discuss the state of the QEMU release process, please:
> 
> * -rc1 has not been tagged.
> * Who besides Anthony could upload a tarball if we tag and create it?
> * make-release fix for SeaBIOS on the list. Ping, and are more affected?

+1 for this one.

Another thing might be the release process in general. Currently it seems
that everybody tries to push everything just before the hard freeze.  I had
to debug some problems introduced _after_ soft freeze. Is there some
interest in having a Linux-like process (merge window + stabilization)? This
would require shorter release cycles of course.

Christian