Re: [Qemu-devel] Proposed 2.5 release schedule

[Markus Armbruster]

Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:

> Here's a suggested 2.5 release schedule, constructed fairly arbitrarily
> by putting a week's margin for slippage in before everybody leaves for
> Christmas, and having a four week softfreeze and four week hardfreeze:
>
>  Softfreeze 15 Oct
>  Hardfreeze 12 Nov
>  Release 10 Dec
>
> (these are all Thursdays, and this gives us five and a half weeks til
> softfreeze.)
>
> Does anybody have any different preferences, want to suggest shorter
> freeze periods, etc?

Sounds good to me.

> (Philosophical question: I tend to assume we will slip by a week, because
> we pretty much have always done so over the last few weeks. If we made
> the official hardfreeze a week longer, would we make our releases on
> the scheduled date, or would we just end up slipping another week
> anyhow? :-))

I wouldn't want to bet on the former :)