Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU 2.1 release schedule?

[Peter Maydell]

On 28 April 2014 16:38, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks to everybody who helped with getting QEMU 2.0 released.
> The traditional reward for a job well done is another job, which
> means we should probably work out what the release schedule for
> 2.1 is going to be.
>
> We started 2.1's development phase on 17th April, which means that
> for a standard 3 month release we're looking at mid to late July
> release. (Of course if we stick to 3 month releases then the
> slippage on 2.0 means we'll only have 3 releases this year, not
> 4; do we care?)
>
> I felt we were a bit too aggressive in the schedule this
> time around, and didn't really leave enough hard-freeze time
> for producing, testing and stabilizing the release candidates.
> I think we should probably aim for something more like what
> 2.0 actually ended up with, rather than our proposed dates
> (see http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.0).

Paolo suggested on IRC:

> soft freeze mid june, hard freeze beginning of july,
> release end of july or beginning of august?

Which works for me. Some concrete dates:
 * 17 June: softfreeze and rc0
   [ 2 week softfreeze period ]
 * 1 July: hardfreeze
   [ 4 week hardfreeze period, aiming for
     rc1, rc2, rc3 at about weekly intervals ]
 * 29 July: release

Michael: does that schedule work for you, given you'd
be doing the tarball-rolling parts?

thanks
-- PMM