Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering

[Thomas Huth]

On 02.05.2018 11:03, Liviu Ionescu wrote:
> On 2 May 2018 at 11:13:49, Thomas Huth (address@hidden) wrote:
> 
>> https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#Deprecated-features
> 
> Thank you, Thomas.
> 
>> It took quite a while to get a consensus on that policy, so I don't
>> think that we want to sacrifice that for semver.
> 
> ok, this might be a point.
> 
> thinking twice, I'm not sure it is a real sacrifice; I think that the
> problem here is the strict definition:
> 
> "The feature will remain functional for 2 releases prior to actual removal."
> 
> if it were:
> 
> "The feature will remain functional for _at least_ 2 releases prior to
> actual removal. "
> 
> or even better:
> 
> "The feature will remain functional for _at least_ 2 _major_ releases
> prior to actual removal. "

Sorry, but this really does not match with what we discussed last year
(see the thread at
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-03/msg01592.html for
example), so I doubt that we can get a consensus on this for QEMU.

 Thomas