> On Sep 23, 2015, at 8:33 AM, Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 11:04 PM, Nithin Raju <nit...@vmware.com> wrote:
>> hi Jesse,
>> We are getting the Hyper-V solution to a state with the following goals:
>> - Work “out of the box” ie. no need to make special settings such as 
>> disabling checksum offload, TSO, etc.
>> - Reasonably stable
>> 
>> Most of the patches we have checked in so far into 2.4 are geared towards 
>> these two goals. Once all of the required changes go in, and we are 
>> reasonably confident about the stability, we can hopefully make an 
>> announcement about Hyper-V support.
> 
> This is my concern - there should not be any announcements based on
> stable branches because there should be no development on stable
> branches. The only thing that should go in is targeted bug fixes to
> address issues that came up after the release.
> 
> All of the goals that you listed are good things and make sense - on
> the master branch. However, I don't see a need to bring these back to
> 2.4. My guess is that there is no more churn in the common code on
> master than with the Windows patches here.
> 
> So please just target 2.5 as the release to make an announcement about
> Hyper-V support. I promise that this release cycle won't be as long as
> 2.4.

Jesse,
We were hoping for a dot release off of 2.4. Like a 2.4.1 or 2.4.2 to announce 
support. Would that not be the right release vehicle?

thanks,
-- Nithin
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