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

[Peter Maydell]

On 4 January 2017 at 14:51, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 05:06:13PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Sounds good to me.  Peter?

Are we retaining the "make sure you have your pull requests on the list
by the softfreeze date" rule this time around?

thanks
-- PMM