Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for 2014-04-01

[Anthony Liguori]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 31 March 2014 14:21, Christian Borntraeger <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Another thing might be the release process in general. Currently it seems
>> that everybody tries to push everything just before the hard freeze.  I had
>> to debug some problems introduced _after_ soft freeze. Is there some
>> interest in having a Linux-like process (merge window + stabilization)? This
>> would require shorter release cycles of course.
>
> "merge window" has been suggested before. I think it would be
> a terrible idea for QEMU, personally. We're not the kernel in
> many ways, notably dev community size and a greater tendency
> to changes that have effects across the whole tree.
>
> Soft + hard freeze is our stabilization period currently.

Peter, are you willing to do the tagging and announcement for the 2.0
rcs?  I sent instructions privately and between stefanha and I we can
get your permissions sorted out.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> thanks
> -- PMM