Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PULL 0/2] ppc-for-3.0 queue 20180801

[Peter Maydell]

On 1 August 2018 at 12:24, BALATON Zoltan <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2018, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> So, we've just put out rc3, which in an ideal world is our
>> final release candidate for 3.0. Are these bugs regressions from
>> 2.12 ?
>
>
> I don't know about the macio one but the sam460ex PCI interrupts were broken
> in 2.12 too. However it's a fix for a device only used in sam460ex which is
> now fixed by this patch so including it is not high risk for breaking
> anything else than sam460ex which is known to be not finished yet so I would
> not worry too much. But which is better? Releasing 3.0 with a known bug or
> including this fix without an rc4?

The problem with continuing to delay 3.0 while we have known bugs
is that bugs generally come in at an even rate, so we *always*
have known bugs, and so "we found another bug, let's delay 3.0
again to put in a fix for it" is a recipe for never doing a release.
That's why we gradually wind up the bar for "should this go in",
from "any bug" to "regressions" to "really really serious showstopper
regressions".

We never do a final release without a last rc (it is too risky),
so that is not an option.

thanks
-- PMM