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

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 03:12:28PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> 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?

I hope so.  It helps keep the freeze time bounded.

Stefan

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