Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/47] virtio, pc: fixes and features

[Peter Maydell]

On 1 November 2016 at 14:14, Igor Mammedov <address@hidden> wrote:
> PS:
> Looks like with new soft-freeze rules we just have one big
> hard-freeze window and people trying to frantically squeeze
> in features last minute.
> I think previous soft-freeze rules worked better where
> maintainers were still allowed merge features at their
> discretion if series would converge in soft-freeze time
> frame and be important/low risk one. Like the case here.

But you get an extra week before softfreeze deadline
(ie softfreeze is 2 weeks rather than 3), so it evens
out a bit. At a week into old-style softfreeze you
as a submaintainer should probably have been pushing
back on this as late for a new feature anyway.

thanks
-- PMM