Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] 1.4 release schedule

[Blue Swirl]

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Based on popular demand, I'd like to continue with a 3-month release
> cycle for the foreseeable future.  One thing I'd like to "fix" though is
> to avoid major holidays during the -rc cycles.
>
> The best cycle I can figure is:
>
> Feb 15th
> May 15th
> Aug 15th
> Nov 15th
>
> To get us onto this schedule, we'll need to make 1.4 a short release but
> I still think there's ample time to ge stuff done.
>
> I've put up a strawman schedule on the wiki:
>
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.4

Looks fine.

The definition of the hard freeze bothers me. A few patches that went
in after 1.3-rc0 were not bug fixes but just new features, so the
difference between soft and hard freezes was not clear.

>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>
>