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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-gpu doesn't build if you do a linux-headers
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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Am 05.11.2015 um 14:44 schrieb Peter Maydell:
> On 5 November 2015 at 13:23, Christian Borntraeger
> <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Maybe we should try to aim for a 3 month cadence for QEMU to reduce the
>> pain of missing soft/hard freeze. -> maybe a topic for the next QEMU
>> summit?
> 
> We used to have 3 month releases, but I think we found that these
> were too short: If you have about a month hardfreeze and a month
> softfreeze then you only have a month of open feature development,
> which seems pretty short to me.

Yes, the overall process has to change for a 3 month cadence.