Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for July 20

[Anthony Liguori]

On 07/20/2010 11:29 AM, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> It's a pitty I can't easily attend to this conference call, as it seems
> a lot of decisions are taken there. Anyway let me comment the part
> concerning 0.12 stable:
>    

Is it a matter of time zone or conflict?  The call has historically been 
centered around KVM issues but these days it's hard to make such a clear 
distinction..

> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 07:45:51AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
>    
> > 0.12.stable
> > - start w/ git tree + pull requests
> > - release process is separate from commit access
> > - justin will put up a tree for pull requests
> > - there's current backlog, what about that?
> >      
> I think someone should actively follow the patches committed to HEAD and
> backport them when they seems to be stable material. I guess it's what's
> Justin plans to do.
>
> OTOH, it might be useful if people sending patches to HEAD adds a small
> comment about cherry-picking the patch to stable if it applies.
>    

My big concern with -stable is testing.  For folks interested in helping 
out, what I'd really like to see is people explicitly testing their 
patches on -stable.  IOW, just saying "this is probably stable material" 
is not nearly as helpful as saying, "I've verified this cherry picks 
cleanly to stable and tested there."

> > - anthony's concern with -stable is the testing (upstream tree gets more
> >    testing than -stable)
> >      
> Debian gets regular uploads with the contents of the -stable tree
> between to releases. Also patches from trunk are all cherry-picked from
> HEAD.
>    

That's good to know.  My main point was that proportionately speaking, 
the master branch gets considerably more testing than the stable 
branch.  Considering that there is a higher expectation of stable too, 
the testing requirement for it is pretty high in my opinion.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> > - 0.12.5?
> >    - planning to do next w/ 0.13 release
> >    - aurelien may cut a release
> >      
> Following the minutes from last week, I sent a call for release, with a
> deadline today. I only got the patch series from Kevin. There are
> currently 44 patches waiting in the stable tree, so I guess we can go
> for a release. I plan to do that later this week if nobody opposes.
>
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