Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] QEMU 1.2.0 Release Schedule

[Anthony Liguori]

On 06/03/2012 04:16 AM, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Anthony Liguori<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > Summary: GA on September 1st, shorten feature freeze to 2.5 weeks.
> >
> > We've discussed a lot in the past moving to a quarterly release cycle.  More
> > frequent releases will allow distributions to more easily ship newer
> > versions of QEMU.
>
> I think the previous freeze was a bit long, mainly the problem is how
> to handle merging of different development trees (QOM vs. PPC for
> example). So 2,5 weeks could be nice.

Yes, I feel it was a little long also.

> But in the same way, if we now try three months' cycle and it turns
> out to be too short (vacations during summer in northern hemisphere),
> maybe we can try four months' cycle (3 releases/year) next year.

Absolutely.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> > Here's the schedule (also available on the wiki):
> >
> > http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.2
> >
> > | 2011-06-01
> > | Beginning of 1.2 development phase
> > |-
> > | 2012-07-01
> > | [[Planning/Sprint|Sprint]] 1
> > |-
> > | 2012-08-01
> > | [[Planning/SoftFeatureFreeze|Soft feature freeze]].  Major features should
> > have initial code committed by this date.
> > |-
> > | 2012-08-15
> > | [[Planning/HardFeatureFreeze|Hard feature freeze]].  Tag v1.2.0-rc0, only
> > bug fixes committed after this point
> > |-
> > | 2012-08-22
> > | Tag v1.2.0-rc1
> > |-
> > | 2012-08-29
> > | Tag v1.2.0-rc2
> > |-
> > | 2012-09-01
> > | Tag v1.2.0
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Anthony Liguori