Re: [Qemu-devel] Reminder: we're now in softfreeze

[Peter Crosthwaite]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 3:30 AM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> [Apologies for the huge cc list, which is basically "everybody
> I have accepted a pullreq from this release cycle.]
>
> Just a reminder that we're now in softfreeze (ie "no new big
> features, start the process of cutting down towards only bugfixes
> going into master"). Hardfreeze will be on the 12th November,
> in three weeks' time. If submaintainers can aim to get pull
> requests in early rather than all on the 12th that would be
> nice, otherwise we get a big logjam on rc0 day and your
> chances of not getting new-feature code in go up sharply.
>
> For this release I'd like to try tracking known-issues on
> the wiki page: http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.5
> with a list of patch series or bugs which need to be fixed
> into the release. This will hopefully avoid the problem we
> had last time around where I missed patches that should have
> gone into an rc.

Can patches fix this with the right form of query? Maybe another piece
of metadata for patches that are promoted for rc merge.

Regards,
Peter

The idea is that anybody (patch series author,
> bug submitter, submaintainer) can add to the list. Then we
> can annotate it with status (rejected as an rc bug, in a
> submaintainer tree, applied to master, etc).
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
>