Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU 2.7 release schedule?

[Christian Borntraeger]

On 06/06/2016 05:34 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Well, time to make a decision about our release date for 2.7.
> 
> If you start out with "let's put the release in august like it
> usually is but not so close to KVM Forum (24-26 Aug) as to
> be likely to slip in to it", then you get something like:
> 
> Jun 21 softfreeze
> Jul 12 hardfreeze, rc0
> Jul 19 rc1
> Jul 26 rc2
> Aug 02 rc3
> Aug 09 final release 2.7.0
> 
> That's with a 3-week softfreeze again, and puts softfreeze
> in two weeks' time.
> 
> Anybody got any better suggestions?

What about making the last rc at KVM forum, get all maintainers together in a 
room for 2 hours
and let everybody test the last rc on their favourite platform?

If that does not work out (room/timeslot whatever) your proposal would be fine 
with me.
It would be a relatively short cycle, though (which I think is good). 

Christian