[Qemu-devel] Re: Planning for 0.13

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 06:43:11AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hope everyone had a happy new year!  Now that we've finished the 0.12  
> release and most of us have had a nice break, I think it's time to start  
> planning for the next release.
>
> 0.12 felt a bit rushed to me.  I'd like to take a bit more time with  
> 0.13 and try to complete features a bit more than we did in 0.12.  So I  
> propose that we target 0.13 as a 6-month cycle and target a June 1st  
> release.  Based on the -rc process for 0.12, I would like to have a two  
> week -rc cycle for 0.13 but this time, absolutely no non-bug fixes past  
> freeze.  We got sloppy in 0.12 with this and we had some ugly  
> regressions in the final release.
>
> Here are the features that I'm aware of for 0.13.  Please add anything  
> you're working on and I'll try to centralize this somewhere.
>
>  - gPXE support for virtio-blk
>  - Helper based network setup
>  - Balloon driver statistics
>  - Fully supported QMP
>  - Live migration protocol support for subvendor versions (aka features)

pci compliance (virtio passing whql)
vepa networking
kvm irqchip

> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>