On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:51:03 +0100 Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi; I usually let people forget about releases for a month or > so before bringing this topic up, but: > > (1) do we want to call the next release 2.13, or something else? > There's no particular reason to bump to 3.0 except some combination of > * if we keep going like this we'll get up to 2.42, which starts to > get silly > * Linus-style "avoid being too predictable" > * triskaidekaphobia > but maybe we should anyway? > Do we care for machine versions to stick to QEMU versions ? I ask, because we've already added a pseries-2.13 machine type (in master since David's latest pull req). No big deal though if we have to turn it into pseries-3.0 I guess... > (2) release timing: > * usual schedule would give us a next release mid-to-late August > * unless I can persuade Stefan to do the release management this > cycle we might need to wind that in by a couple of weeks so > it's definitely done by the middle of August, to avoid a clash > with a personal commitment > * so probably hardfreeze 10th July, softfreeze 3rd July > > (3) retrospective, lessons learned &c > * please remember that if every single submaintainer submits > a pull request on the morning of an RC, it is physically > not possible for me to process all those pulls in time to > tag the RC that day. We had several RCs which got delayed > by a day because of this; please try to submit earlier > rather than later... > * provide your opinions here ? > > thanks > -- PMM >
