Re: [Qemu-devel] Planning for the 0.11.0 release

[Blue Swirl]

On 6/23/09, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

Sounds OK. I think OpenBIOS releases should follow similar schedule,
maybe even with matching SVN tags (1.1-rc1 for 0.11.0-rc1 etc).

>  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.

I think this is great, but OpenBIOS still uses Subversion. Can git use
SVN submodules for example?