Re: [Qemu-devel] proposed release timetable for 2.8

[Peter Maydell]

On 6 September 2016 at 11:33, Kevin Wolf <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am 05.09.2016 um 13:10 hat Peter Maydell geschrieben:
>> ie if we were stricter about "no commits unless they're fixes for
>> regressions, fixes for things new in this release or security fixes",
>> would this reduce the number of commits we do post-freeze much?
>
> I don't think we should leave a bug intentionally unfixed even though
> there is a patch, just because it was already broken in the last
> release.

We already do (informally) once we're a way into the hard freeze.
Bug reports (and fixes for them) arrive all the time, and at
a rate such that if we allowed any bug fix into the
tree during freeze we would never have a period of a week
without new bugfixes going in that allowed us to actually
release.

If a bug went unnoticed and unfixed for almost the whole release
cycle, this is a good sign that it's actually not all that
prominent to users; so it's a reasonably good, objective,
and easy to apply metric for restricting bug fixes to "only
important bug fixes".

thanks
-- PMM