Re: [Qemu-devel] proposed release timetable for 2.8

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 06/09/2016 04:43, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Based also on the discussion at QEMU summit, where there was consensus
> > that three weeks between softfreeze and rc0 was too much, IMO we can
> > shorten the period to just two weeks
> 
> Do we intend to strengthen the soft freeze definition then?
> One difficulty is that the definition for soft freeze at the moment is
> that some code is on list.  Some of these get reworked significantly.

Yes, see Peter's answer to me.

> I get flooded with patches just before the softfreeze, all conflicting,
> all need some work, and it takes a bunch of back and forth to resolve
> the conflicts.

You are too good! :)

Paolo