On 06/06/2016 05:34 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > Well, time to make a decision about our release date for 2.7. > > If you start out with "let's put the release in august like it > usually is but not so close to KVM Forum (24-26 Aug) as to > be likely to slip in to it", then you get something like: > > Jun 21 softfreeze > Jul 12 hardfreeze, rc0 > Jul 19 rc1 > Jul 26 rc2 > Aug 02 rc3 > Aug 09 final release 2.7.0 > > That's with a 3-week softfreeze again, and puts softfreeze > in two weeks' time. > > Anybody got any better suggestions?
What about making the last rc at KVM forum, get all maintainers together in a room for 2 hours and let everybody test the last rc on their favourite platform? If that does not work out (room/timeslot whatever) your proposal would be fine with me. It would be a relatively short cycle, though (which I think is good). Christian