Re: [Qemu-devel] Highlighting changes in QEMU 2.5

[John Snow]

On 12/01/2015 07:16 AM, Amit Shah wrote:
> Ping.
> 
> I haven't received any responses so far, please let me know if you're
> planning on doing this.
> 
> Thanks,
> 

I did amend the changelog on the wiki for my part, but I don't have
anything better than a webcam. I have hunches that hewn together grainy
webcam footage won't make for a very compelling video...

--js

> On (Tue) 24 Nov 2015 [10:28:25], Amit Shah wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> The 2.5 release is close - and I'm collecting a list of notable
>> changes and features once more.  The video made for the 2.4 release
>> [1] was popular, and I'm volunteering to make one for 2.5 as well.  In
>> addition, we need more feature pages, and there's a template at [2]
>> that you can use to base feature pages off.
>>
>> I've CC'ed maintainers whose pull reqs got merged for the 2.5 cycle,
>> but this is not restricted to maintainers only - feature owners are
>> welcome to submit their videos and author feature pages as well --
>> please coordinate with the maintainers who sent pull reqs so there's
>> no duplication of content for the video.
>>
>> Please get me the videos before Monday, 7 December, and I can then get
>> the final video ready in time for the 10th December release date.
>>
>> For the feature pages, please link them to the ChangeLog page at [3].
>>
>> Details:
>>
>> This time, we can actually put the video out on release day (even
>> within the release announcement?) since we have a bit of time on
>> hands.  Can you please go through the notable enhancements in your
>> subsystems for the 2.5 release, and send me a short (max. 2 mins)
>> video highlighting the changes in 2.5, and optionally something about
>> where we're headed in the future with those changes?  A brief note on
>> how those changes impact users (directly, or via higher level
>> software, e.g. openstack) will be useful.
>>
>> The video can be shot using a phone camera (preferably the main
>> camera), or a webcam / laptop cam.  For consistency, it's better if
>> the videos are at least 720p (higher the better!), and have as less
>> background noise as possible.  I can remove the background noise using
>> audacity, but that makes the main voice sound robotic, so it's better
>> not to resort to that.
>>
>> Please upload to some file sharing service (preferably no login
>> required), and send me a pointer.
>>
>>
>> Additionally, more search-friendly text-based feature pages help
>> users, testers and future contributors a lot, so please create feature
>> pages for major changes, and include as much information as possible.
>> The template at [2] should be a good start to help thinking about what
>> information to include.
>>
>>
>> [1] http://log.amitshah.net/2015/09/qemu-maintainers-on-the-2-4-release/
>> [2] http://qemu-project.org/NewFeatureTemplate
>> [3] http://qemu-project.org/ChangeLog/2.5
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>              Amit
>>
>>
> 
>               Amit
>