Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering

[David Gibson]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 04:23:59PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:51:03 +0100
> Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Hi; I usually let people forget about releases for a month or
> > so before bringing this topic up, but:
> > 
> > (1) do we want to call the next release 2.13, or something else?
> > There's no particular reason to bump to 3.0 except some combination of
> >  * if we keep going like this we'll get up to 2.42, which starts to
> >    get silly
> >  * Linus-style "avoid being too predictable"
> >  * triskaidekaphobia
> > but maybe we should anyway?
> > 
> 
> Do we care for machine versions to stick to QEMU versions ? I ask,
> because we've already added a pseries-2.13 machine type (in master
> since David's latest pull req). No big deal though if we have to
> turn it into pseries-3.0 I guess...

We definitely want this to match the overall release name, so we'll
need to change it if we decide on something other than 2.13.

> 
> > (2) release timing:
> >  * usual schedule would give us a next release mid-to-late August
> >  * unless I can persuade Stefan to do the release management this
> >    cycle we might need to wind that in by a couple of weeks so
> >    it's definitely done by the middle of August, to avoid a clash
> >    with a personal commitment
> >  * so probably hardfreeze 10th July, softfreeze 3rd July
> > 
> > (3) retrospective, lessons learned &c
> >  * please remember that if every single submaintainer submits
> >    a pull request on the morning of an RC, it is physically
> >    not possible for me to process all those pulls in time to
> >    tag the RC that day. We had several RCs which got delayed
> >    by a day because of this; please try to submit earlier
> >    rather than later...
> >  * provide your opinions here ?
> > 
> > thanks
> > -- PMM
> > 
> 

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