Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] 1.4 release schedule

[Blue Swirl]

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Hans de Goede <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On 12/05/2012 08:28 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
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>> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
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>>> Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:
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>>>> On 4 December 2012 18:38, Blue Swirl <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The definition of the hard freeze bothers me. A few patches that went
>>>>> in after 1.3-rc0 were not bug fixes but just new features, so the
>>>>> difference between soft and hard freezes was not clear.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My vote for this would be to adhere to our definition
>>>> and only commit bugfixes.
>>>
>>>
>>> Let's get specific.  What was committed post hard freeze that's not a
>>> bug fix?
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>> d3067b0 Documentation: Update image format information
>> a13e5e0 Documentation: Update block cache mode information
>> 044d003 qemu-tech.texi: update implemented xtensa features list
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> Adding missing / updating docs to be more accurate is a bug fix,
> and one with a very low chance of causing regressions at that.

I don't think they are bug fixes but improvements to documentation
features. But I agree patches only touching documentation, comment and
string contents could be exempted.

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>> a0a7068 target-i386: Enable SSSE3 TCG support
>> 80ae416 target-i386/cpu: Add missing flags to Haswell CPU model
>> 42015c9 virtio-rng: fix typos, comments
>> e1e54f3 target-i386: cpu: add missing flags to Haswell CPU model
>> 339c270 qom: make object_finalize static
>> 64b625f qdev: simplify (de)allocation of buses
>> fde9bf4 qom: make object_delete usable for statically-allocated objects
>> 667d22d qdev: move bus removal to object_unparent
>> 74c856e tests: add thread pool unit tests
>> b2ea25d tests: add AioContext unit tests
>> 21022c9 q35: Add kvmclock support
>> a1c9304 ich9: Add i82801b11 dmi-to-pci bridge
>> df2d8b3 q35: Introduce q35 pc based chipset emulator
>> 678e7b9 ich9: Add smbus
>> 4d00636 ich9: Add the lpc chip
>> e516572 ich9: Add acpi support and definitions
>> 410edd9 pc/piix_pci: factor out smram/pam logic
>> d8ee038 pc_piix: Move kvm irq routing functions out of pc_piix.c
>> a39e356 pc: Move ioapic_init() from pc_piix.c to pc.c
>> 9011a1a pc, pc_piix: split out pc nic initialization
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>> 723aedd usb-redir: Don't handle interrupt output packets async
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> Bug-fix

This was not clear from the description, from that it looked to me
that it's a general change with possibly good and bad effects.

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>> 234e810 usb-redir: Split usb_handle_interrupt_data into separate
>> in/out functions
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> Preparation patch for the above bugfix, no functional changes.
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>> 33c1a68 usb-bt: Return NAK instead of STALL when interrupt ep has no data
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> Bug-fix

Word 'fix' was not mentioned in the description.

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> Regards,
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> Hans