On 31 March 2014 14:21, Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Another thing might be the release process in general. Currently it seems > that everybody tries to push everything just before the hard freeze. I had > to debug some problems introduced _after_ soft freeze. Is there some > interest in having a Linux-like process (merge window + stabilization)? This > would require shorter release cycles of course. "merge window" has been suggested before. I think it would be a terrible idea for QEMU, personally. We're not the kernel in many ways, notably dev community size and a greater tendency to changes that have effects across the whole tree. Soft + hard freeze is our stabilization period currently. thanks -- PMM -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html