Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] We are now in soft freeze for 1.6

[Peter Maydell]

On 21 July 2013 13:52, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:
>> I've just noticed that this is still inconsistent. That
>> page says:
>>
>> "Soft feature freeze. Major features should have initial code
>> committed by this date."
>>
>> but it links to http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/SoftFeatureFreeze
>> which says
>> "By the date of the soft feature freeze, any major feature
>> should have some code posted to the qemu-devel mailing list"
>>
>> I'm pretty sure the latter is right (you only need code
>> posted, not committed) -- can we fix whichever of the two
>> pages is wrong, please?
>
> It depends on the definition of "major".  Any *feature* should have
> patches posted by soft freeze.  I guess a tiny feature would be an
> exception.
>
> For major features (things that have a high likelihood of breaking
> things), the feature should have started getting merged already.
>
> I'll update the wiki text to be clearer.

I note that http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/SoftFeatureFreeze
and http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.7 still disagree
about the definition of soft-freeze...

-- PMM