Re: [Qemu-devel] proposed schedule for 2.11 release

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 10/10/2017 18:10, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 03:07:26PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> OK, here's a strawman proposal for the 2.11 release cycle,
>> based on aiming for a 5 Dec release date and working backwards
>> with the same cadence as 2.10.
>>
>> 2017-10-31 Soft freeze -- all feature changes must already be in a
>>            pull request that's been sent to the mailing list
>> 2017-11-07 Hard freeze, tag rc0
>> 2017-11-14 Tag rc1
>> 2017-11-21 Tag rc2
>> 2017-11-28 Tag rc3
>> 2017-12-05 Release (or rc4 if we need it)
>> 2017-12-12 Release if we needed an rc4
>>
>> That makes softfreeze in 3 weeks time. I'd rather not push
>> the times back any further because we end up in serious
>> risk of running into the christmas holiday period.
> 
> Soft freeze date is not great from a KVM Forum timing POV - the 31st is
> likely to be a travel day for most of the Red Hat devs.

Might as well have soft freeze on Oct 24 (and keep hard freeze on Nov
7)...  Non-maintainers posting patches on the Oct 24-31 week probably
wouldn't have them included in 2.11 anyway.

Paolo

> That said I don't see a much nicer alternative, since giving two weeks
> grace before xmas is good, to allow time for slippage in worst case
> scenarios.
> 
> I guess, it in effect just means that most soft freeze work will want to
> be front loaded in the next 2 weeks before KVM Forum travel starts impacting
> working time.
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
>