[Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

[Anthony Liguori]

Hi,

Now that 0.11.0 is behind us, it's time to start thinking about 0.12.0.

I'd like to do a few things different this time around.  I don't think 
the -rc process went very well as I don't think we got more testing out 
of it.  I'd like to shorten the timeline for 0.12.0 a good bit.  The 
0.10 stable tree got pretty difficult to maintain toward the end of the 
cycle.  We also had a pretty huge amount of change between 0.10 and 0.11 
so I think a shorter cycle is warranted.

I think aiming for early to mid-December would give us roughly a 3 month 
cycle and would align well with some of the Linux distribution cycles.  
I'd like to limit things to a single -rc that lasted only for about a 
week.  This is enough time to fix most of the obvious issues I think.

I'd also like to try to enumerate some features for this release.  
Here's a short list of things I expect to see for this release 
(target-i386 centric).  Please add or comment on items that you'd either 
like to see in the release or are planning on working on.

o VMState conversion -- I expect most of the pc target to be completed
o qdev conversion -- I hope that we'll get most of the pc target 
completely converted to qdev
o storage live migration
o switch to SeaBIOS (need to finish porting features from Bochs)
o switch to gPXE (need to resolve slirp tftp server issue)
o KSM integration
o in-kernel APIC support for KVM
o guest SMP support for KVM
o updates to the default pc machine type

Please add to this list and I'll collect it all and post it somewhere.

Thanks!

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori