Re: [Qemu-devel] Proposal for 2.9 release schedule

[Peter Maydell]

On 9 January 2017 at 10:41, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 03:12:28PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 4 January 2017 at 14:51, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 05:06:13PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> >> On 03/01/2017 16:53, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> >> > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 03:15:58PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> >> >> Considering that Easter is on April 16th, we'd probably want to have 
>> >> >> the
>> >> >> release before that date even in case of a slip.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On the other hand, the Christmas / New Year break here means that we'll
>> >> >> have to make the development time 1-2 week shorter in practice.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> 2016-02-21     2.9 soft freeze
>> >> >> 2016-03-07     hard freeze / rc0
>> >> >> 2016-03-28     rc3 (+3 weeks)
>> >> >> 2016-04-04     rc4 or release
>> >> >> 2016-04-11     release (if rc4)
>> >> >>
>> >> >> One possibility is to make soft freeze happen a few days later.
>> >> >> Peter/Stefan, how did the experiment go with the new rules for soft
>> >> >> freeze?  Is it worth repeating it for 2.9 and would it make sense to
>> >> >> shorten soft freeze given the new rules?
>> >> >
>> >> > I would shorten the soft freeze by 1 week.
>> >> >
>> >> > Overall the 2.8 release went smoothly.  We got unlucky right at the end
>> >> > with a release blocker but otherwise it was fine.
>> >>
>> >> Then what about soft freeze on 2016-02-28?
>> >
>> > Sounds good to me.  Peter?
>>
>> Are we retaining the "make sure you have your pull requests on the list
>> by the softfreeze date" rule this time around?
>
> I hope so.  It helps keep the freeze time bounded.

OK. The dates above work ok for me, so I've updated the wiki:
http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.9

If we're going to standardize on the new softfreeze definition we should
update http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/SoftFeatureFreeze I guess.

thanks
-- PMM