Re: [Qemu-devel] Proposal for 2.9 release schedule

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 03/01/2017 16:53, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 03:15:58PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Considering that Easter is on April 16th, we'd probably want to have the
>> release before that date even in case of a slip.
>>
>> On the other hand, the Christmas / New Year break here means that we'll
>> have to make the development time 1-2 week shorter in practice.
>>
>> 2016-02-21     2.9 soft freeze
>> 2016-03-07     hard freeze / rc0
>> 2016-03-28     rc3 (+3 weeks)
>> 2016-04-04     rc4 or release
>> 2016-04-11     release (if rc4)
>>
>> One possibility is to make soft freeze happen a few days later.
>> Peter/Stefan, how did the experiment go with the new rules for soft
>> freeze?  Is it worth repeating it for 2.9 and would it make sense to
>> shorten soft freeze given the new rules?
> 
> I would shorten the soft freeze by 1 week.
> 
> Overall the 2.8 release went smoothly.  We got unlucky right at the end
> with a release blocker but otherwise it was fine.

Then what about soft freeze on 2016-02-28?

Thanks,

Paolo