On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
Now that 0.11.0 is behind us, it's time to start thinking about 0.12.0.
I'd like to do a few things different this time around. I don't think the
-rc process went very well as I don't think we got more testing out of it.
I'd like to shorten the timeline for 0.12.0 a good bit. The 0.10 stable
tree got pretty difficult to maintain toward the end of the cycle. We also
had a pretty huge amount of change between 0.10 and 0.11 so I think a
shorter cycle is warranted.
I think aiming for early to mid-December would give us roughly a 3 month
cycle and would align well with some of the Linux distribution cycles. I'd
like to limit things to a single -rc that lasted only for about a week.
This is enough time to fix most of the obvious issues I think.
As a downstream packager of qemu-kvm, I thought I'd mention that the
next Ubuntu cycle is now public:
* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseSchedule
The key date here is Feature Freeze, which is February 25, 2010.
That's the point by which we'd need to have a new qemu-kvm (which of
course is downstream of qemu) package in Ubuntu for the LTS 10.04
release in April 2010.