Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] fw_cfg: fix boot bootsplash and reboot-timeout error checking

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

On 11/20/18 9:31 PM, 李强 wrote:

> 
> Nice, when 4.0 window open? I don't find the release planning.

https://wiki.qemu.org/Planning gives the overview, and 
https://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/3.1 gives the dates we are trying to hit 
for 3.1.

> Maybe my another fw_cfg patches can be merged:
> -->https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg00004.html
> -->https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg00005.html

Any new features have missed 3.1, especially since -rc2 has already been 
cut.  There is still room for bug fixes in -rc3, but the bar gets 
progressively higher (we are reluctant to take something that might 
destabilize the binaries without adequate time for testing), and while 
we want to avoid an -rc4, past history says we'll probably have one, 
although it will be as limited as possible.

> PS: I'm quite surprise the qemu's version up to 4 quickly(anyway, the 3.1 is just begin)...

Version numbers are somewhat arbitrary.  We recently switched to bumping 
the major version every year (it's arbitrary, after all), so 2019 will 
have 4.0, 4.1, and probably 4.2 (if we stick to a release every 4 
months) before 2020 starting with 5.0.  The change from 3.0 to 3.1 will, 
in reality, be about the same as the change from 3.1 to 4.0.  A better 
way to think of it is that both the old and new naming schemes are both 
arbitrary, but the new naming scheme has the benefit of not resulting in 
large minor numbers.

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