Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.1.0 is now available

[Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>]

On 01/08/14 23:33, Peter Maydell wrote:

> On 1 August 2014 17:41, Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of
>> the QEMU 2.1.0 release. This release contains 2200+ commits from 180
>> authors.
>
>> Thank you to everyone involved!
>
> Yep, thanks to everybody who helped get this one out of the door;
> trunk is now re-opened for 2.2 development.
>
> If there's anything you think we should maybe try to do better or
> differently next time round, now might be a good time to suggest it.
> Personally I think it went reasonably well and I was happy with the
> length of hardfreeze time. We should remember to ask for updates
> of the message translations at rc0/rc1 time rather than having them
> appear very late in the cycle, perhaps.

Indeed. One of the things I felt helped was that patchsets spanning 
across the entire tree, e.g. display changes and QOM changes were 
applied sooner in the release cycle which I felt helped reduce rebase 
clashes as release drew closer.

The only improvement I would like to see is for maintainers to try and 
regularly flush their patch queues where possible, to help prevent 
patchsets of over 100 emails being posted to the lists (naming no names 
in order to protect the innocent of course ;).


ATB,

Mark.