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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>, KVM devel mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>, qemu list <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Bruce Rogers <brogers@suse.com>, Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= <afaerber@suse.de>

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 31 March 2014 14:21, Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> "merge window" has been suggested before. I think it would be
> a terrible idea for QEMU, personally. We're not the kernel in
> many ways, notably dev community size and a greater tendency
> to changes that have effects across the whole tree.
>
> Soft + hard freeze is our stabilization period currently.

Peter, are you willing to do the tagging and announcement for the 2.0
rcs?  I sent instructions privately and between stefanha and I we can
get your permissions sorted out.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> thanks
> -- PMM