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

[Anthony Liguori]

On 06/03/2012 06:11 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 2 June 2012 23:07, Anthony Liguori<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > On 06/03/2012 04:16 AM, Blue Swirl wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> I agree that the period when master was closed was too long,
> but if we shorten the freeze period will we still have time
> to collect all the bugfixes that crop up?

I felt it was a bit too long because unlike the 1.0 release and previous 0.15 
release, we didn't have any major issues that needed fixing during -rc.  I 
attribute that to the fact that we did a little bit more planning up front and 
avoided surprises.

> One option would be
> to decouple these two things by actually branching for release
> at some point so we can reopen master before release.

I really don't want to do that.  That's the method we used for the early part of 
our history.  It resulted in a lot of people ignoring the releases entirely. 
Freezing master causes everyone to focus on the release instead of future 
looking development.  That's a feature, not a bug :-)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> -- PMM