[Qemu-devel] Planning for the 0.11.0 release

[Anthony Liguori]

Hi,

It's getting to be about the time to start thinking about the 0.11.0 
release.  0.10.0 was released on March 2nd so following with the 6 month 
release cycle, that would put 0.11.0 at September 2nd.

Based on the experiences with the stable releases, here's what I'd 
recommend:

o On July 15th, fork master -> stable-0.11
o Change version to 0.10.90
o Release qemu-0.11.0-rc1
o Release additional -rcN releases every 1-2 weeks
o Introduce a new maintainer for stable-0.10 (via git pulls)
o At least 1 week before release, hopefully we'll have the final -rcN 
that we can then declare 0.11.0.

I think we should really try hard to make these dates.  I only have a 
few things that I would like to see happen before forking stable-0.11.  
Namely:

o Setup qemu.org infrastructure (git hosting, wiki)
o Setup qemu bug tracker (see next mail)
o Include all ROM source code in tree via git submodules.  This is a 
major headache for distributors and I think it's important to resolve 
before our next release.
o Disable kqemu by default.  The intention is _not_ to remove kqemu 
support.  Enabling kqemu by default causes a few unpleasant side effects 
including errors if -m is greater than 1/2 of the host physical memory.

I don't expect the qdev conversion will be complete by 0.11.  I think we 
should try to get as much of the invasive changes as possible in to make 
stable-0.11 as maintainable as possible.  However, I think it would be a 
mistake to gate the release on qdev.

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori