On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Peter, are you willing to do the tagging and announcement for the 2.0 rcs? I sent instructions privately and between stefanha and I we can get your permissions sorted out. Regards, Anthony Liguori > 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
