Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-gpu doesn't build if you do a linux-headers update from kvm/next

[Peter Maydell]

On 5 November 2015 at 14:30, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 5 November 2015 at 14:01, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 05/11/2015 14:44, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> We used to have 3 month releases, but I think we found that these
>>> were too short: If you have about a month hardfreeze and a month
>>> softfreeze then you only have a month of open feature development,
>>> which seems pretty short to me.
>>
>> It's short unless you assume that development goes on in private
>> maintainer trees during hard freeze.  It's always happened at least for
>> the block layer, and probably for everything else.  About 400 commits in
>> 2.5 were authored before the 2.4 release.
>
> Mostly I don't have a for-the-next-release tree for target-arm
> during freeze unless I completely can't avoid it, because it's
> a pain to maintain both.

...also speaking as the person who does the wrangling of freezes and
rc candidate tags and so on, three times a year is quite enough :-)

thanks
-- PMM