On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Avi Kivity wrote: >> >> Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> >>> Hi Avi, >>> >>> Since a number of people are using the maint/2.6.29 branch, perhaps we >>> could start doing releases from it? For instance, a kvm-74.1, kvm-74.2, >>> etc. set of releases. Likewise, when we start maint/2.6.30, a new set of >>> stable releases could follow. >> >> Yes, I want to do that. > > Ok, is there anything standing in the way of doing this? What would prevent > us from doing a stable release in the next few days even? Is there anything > we can do to help? > >> One question is what to call these releases, though. > > I'd like to see it be named kvm-XX.y or something like that to keep a close > association between what the base release was. For instance, you wouldn't > expect HPET support in kvm-74.3 but you may expect it if it were > kvm-stable-3 or something. > As we're getting close to kvm-xxx anyway, maybe we could forget this number scheme, and adopt something that tracks linux. This way, you know exactly what kernel a released is based on. Something in the lines of kvm-29.1 for updates to the .29 series, (of course _this_ scheme is bad, because it brings clashes) -- Glauber Costa. "Free as in Freedom" http://glommer.net "The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act." -- 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
