Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU 2.8 release schedule

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> Following previous discussions [1], the rules for the softfreeze will be
> changed in the QEMU 2.8 release cycle to bound the length of the freeze
> period better.
> 
> Previously patch series posted on the mailing list prior to softfreeze
> could be included in maintainers' pull requests during softfreeze.

Maybe we should call "softfreeze" simple "freeze" then to make things
more clear.  Any features must land pull requests before freeze, period.
We don't really have a separate hard freeze any more:  After (soft-)
freeze only bugfixes are allowed.

cheers,
  Gerd