Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] QEMU 1.2.0 Release Schedule

[Blue Swirl]

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> Summary: GA on September 1st, shorten feature freeze to 2.5 weeks.
>
> We've discussed a lot in the past moving to a quarterly release cycle.  More
> frequent releases will allow distributions to more easily ship newer
> versions of QEMU.

I think the previous freeze was a bit long, mainly the problem is how
to handle merging of different development trees (QOM vs. PPC for
example). So 2,5 weeks could be nice.

But in the same way, if we now try three months' cycle and it turns
out to be too short (vacations during summer in northern hemisphere),
maybe we can try four months' cycle (3 releases/year) next year.

>
> Here's the schedule (also available on the wiki):
>
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.2
>
> | 2011-06-01
> | Beginning of 1.2 development phase
> |-
> | 2012-07-01
> | [[Planning/Sprint|Sprint]] 1
> |-
> | 2012-08-01
> | [[Planning/SoftFeatureFreeze|Soft feature freeze]].  Major features should
> have initial code committed by this date.
> |-
> | 2012-08-15
> | [[Planning/HardFeatureFreeze|Hard feature freeze]].  Tag v1.2.0-rc0, only
> bug fixes committed after this point
> |-
> | 2012-08-22
> | Tag v1.2.0-rc1
> |-
> | 2012-08-29
> | Tag v1.2.0-rc2
> |-
> | 2012-09-01
> | Tag v1.2.0
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>