Re: proposed release schedule for QEMU 7.0

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 17:09, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Here's my suggestion for release schedule dates for 7.0:
>
> 2021-12-14 Beginning of development phase
> 2022-03-08 Soft feature freeze. Only bug fixes after this point.
>            All feature changes must be already in a sub maintainer
>            tree and all pull requests from submaintainers must have
>            been sent to the list by this date.
> 2022-03-15 Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
> 2022-03-22 Tag rc1
> 2022-03-29 Tag rc2
> 2022-04-05 Tag rc3
> 2022-04-12 Release; or tag rc4 if needed
> 2022-04-19 Release if we needed an rc4
>
> Any opinions/suggested tweaks?
>
> Easter this year is April 15-18th, which is slightly awkwardly
> between the theoretical release day and the more probable
> release-if-we-tag-rc4 day. But we can't really bring it forward
> as softfreeze is already only 2 weeks from now...

Three weeks; I miscounted!

-- PMM