From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Msmvn-0000NE-1L for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:20:31 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Msmvi-0000LD-Ez for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:20:30 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58901 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Msmvi-0000L3-As for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:20:26 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:55173) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Msmvh-0001xA-So for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:20:26 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f214.google.com ([209.85.220.214]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Msmvg-0006zk-LZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:20:24 -0400 Received: by fxm10 with SMTP id 10so1411775fxm.8 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:20:22 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: dustin.kirkland@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <4AC29E4D.80707@us.ibm.com> References: <4AC29E4D.80707@us.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:20:22 -0500 Message-ID: From: Dustin Kirkland Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Release plan for 0.12.0 List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , kvm-devel , Paul Brook On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Anthony Liguori wrot= e: > Now that 0.11.0 is behind us, it's time to start thinking about 0.12.0. > > I'd like to do a few things different this time around. =A0I don't think = the > -rc process went very well as I don't think we got more testing out of it= . > =A0I'd like to shorten the timeline for 0.12.0 a good bit. =A0The 0.10 st= able > tree got pretty difficult to maintain toward the end of the cycle. =A0We = also > had a pretty huge amount of change between 0.10 and 0.11 so I think a > shorter cycle is warranted. > > I think aiming for early to mid-December would give us roughly a 3 month > cycle and would align well with some of the Linux distribution cycles. = =A0I'd > like to limit things to a single -rc that lasted only for about a week. > =A0This is enough time to fix most of the obvious issues I think. As a downstream packager of qemu-kvm, I thought I'd mention that the next Ubuntu cycle is now public: * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseSchedule The key date here is Feature Freeze, which is February 25, 2010. That's the point by which we'd need to have a new qemu-kvm (which of course is downstream of qemu) package in Ubuntu for the LTS 10.04 release in April 2010. I'll gladly track the release candidate(s) in the Lucid development tree, and hopefully pull 0.12 as soon as its available. And we also provide daily snapshots of qemu builds at: * https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-virt/+archive/virt-daily-upstream :-Dustin