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Re: [Qemu-devel] Proposal for 2.9 release schedule
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Proposal for 2.9 release schedule |
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Wed, 4 Jan 2017 14:51:33 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04) |
On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 05:06:13PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 03/01/2017 16:53, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 03:15:58PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >> Considering that Easter is on April 16th, we'd probably want to have the
> >> release before that date even in case of a slip.
> >>
> >> On the other hand, the Christmas / New Year break here means that we'll
> >> have to make the development time 1-2 week shorter in practice.
> >>
> >> 2016-02-21 2.9 soft freeze
> >> 2016-03-07 hard freeze / rc0
> >> 2016-03-28 rc3 (+3 weeks)
> >> 2016-04-04 rc4 or release
> >> 2016-04-11 release (if rc4)
> >>
> >> One possibility is to make soft freeze happen a few days later.
> >> Peter/Stefan, how did the experiment go with the new rules for soft
> >> freeze? Is it worth repeating it for 2.9 and would it make sense to
> >> shorten soft freeze given the new rules?
> >
> > I would shorten the soft freeze by 1 week.
> >
> > Overall the 2.8 release went smoothly. We got unlucky right at the end
> > with a release blocker but otherwise it was fine.
>
> Then what about soft freeze on 2016-02-28?
Sounds good to me. Peter?
Stefan
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