Re: [Qemu-devel] proposed release timetable for 2.8

2016-09-14 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 04:11:43PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 5 September 2016 at 15:47, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > Based also on the discussion at QEMU summit, where there was consensus > > that three weeks between softfreeze and rc0 was too much, IMO we can > > shorten the period to just two

Re: [Qemu-devel] proposed release timetable for 2.8

2016-09-06 Thread Peter Maydell
On 6 September 2016 at 13:40, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Peter Maydell writes: > >> On 6 September 2016 at 11:33, Kevin Wolf wrote: >>> Am 05.09.2016 um 13:10 hat Peter Maydell geschrieben: ie if we were stricter about "no commits unless they're fixes for regressions, fixes for things

Re: [Qemu-devel] proposed release timetable for 2.8

2016-09-06 Thread Markus Armbruster
Peter Maydell writes: > On 6 September 2016 at 11:33, Kevin Wolf wrote: >> Am 05.09.2016 um 13:10 hat Peter Maydell geschrieben: >>> ie if we were stricter about "no commits unless they're fixes for >>> regressions, fixes for things new in this release or security fixes", >>> would this reduce t

Re: [Qemu-devel] proposed release timetable for 2.8

2016-09-06 Thread Peter Maydell
On 6 September 2016 at 11:33, Kevin Wolf wrote: > Am 05.09.2016 um 13:10 hat Peter Maydell geschrieben: >> ie if we were stricter about "no commits unless they're fixes for >> regressions, fixes for things new in this release or security fixes", >> would this reduce the number of commits we do pos

Re: [Qemu-devel] proposed release timetable for 2.8

2016-09-06 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 05.09.2016 um 13:10 hat Peter Maydell geschrieben: > On 1 September 2016 at 12:18, Peter Maydell wrote: > > I know 2.7 isn't quite out the door yet, but I figured we should > > kick off the discussion of 2.8's schedule. At the QEMU Summit there > > was some discussion on how we're doing with re

Re: [Qemu-devel] proposed release timetable for 2.8

2016-09-06 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 06/09/2016 04:43, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > Based also on the discussion at QEMU summit, where there was consensus > > that three weeks between softfreeze and rc0 was too much, IMO we can > > shorten the period to just two weeks > > Do we intend to strengthen the soft freeze definition th

Re: [Qemu-devel] proposed release timetable for 2.8

2016-09-05 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 04:47:11PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > On 01/09/2016 16:08, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > > I suggest we do the schedule above with a firm hardfreeze deadline where > > no more feature pull requests are allowed. This means a 2 week > > softfreeze and time before -rc0 for

Re: [Qemu-devel] proposed release timetable for 2.8

2016-09-05 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 11:38:06AM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote: > Am 01.09.2016 um 16:08 hat Stefan Hajnoczi geschrieben: > > On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 12:18:10PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > > > I know 2.7 isn't quite out the door yet, but I figured we should > > > kick off the discussion of 2.8's sche

Re: [Qemu-devel] proposed release timetable for 2.8

2016-09-05 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 05/09/2016 17:11, Peter Maydell wrote: > > Based also on the discussion at QEMU summit, where there was consensus > > that three weeks between softfreeze and rc0 was too much, IMO we can > > shorten the period to just two weeks > > > > * softfreeze is a deadline for _maintainers_ to post their

Re: [Qemu-devel] proposed release timetable for 2.8

2016-09-05 Thread Peter Maydell
On 5 September 2016 at 15:47, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Based also on the discussion at QEMU summit, where there was consensus > that three weeks between softfreeze and rc0 was too much, IMO we can > shorten the period to just two weeks > > * softfreeze is a deadline for _maintainers_ to post their l

Re: [Qemu-devel] proposed release timetable for 2.8

2016-09-05 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 01/09/2016 16:08, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > I suggest we do the schedule above with a firm hardfreeze deadline where > no more feature pull requests are allowed. This means a 2 week > softfreeze and time before -rc0 for the maintainer to merge and test > pull requests: > > 2016-10-25 softfree

Re: [Qemu-devel] proposed release timetable for 2.8

2016-09-05 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 12:18:10PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > I know 2.7 isn't quite out the door yet, but I figured we should > kick off the discussion of 2.8's schedule. At the QEMU Summit there > was some discussion on how we're doing with releases, and I think > the consensus view was that w

Re: [Qemu-devel] proposed release timetable for 2.8

2016-09-05 Thread Markus Armbruster
Peter Maydell writes: > On 1 September 2016 at 12:18, Peter Maydell wrote: >> I know 2.7 isn't quite out the door yet, but I figured we should >> kick off the discussion of 2.8's schedule. At the QEMU Summit there >> was some discussion on how we're doing with releases, and I think >> the consen

Re: [Qemu-devel] proposed release timetable for 2.8

2016-09-05 Thread Peter Maydell
On 1 September 2016 at 12:18, Peter Maydell wrote: > I know 2.7 isn't quite out the door yet, but I figured we should > kick off the discussion of 2.8's schedule. At the QEMU Summit there > was some discussion on how we're doing with releases, and I think > the consensus view was that we should tr

Re: [Qemu-devel] proposed release timetable for 2.8

2016-09-05 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 01.09.2016 um 16:08 hat Stefan Hajnoczi geschrieben: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 12:18:10PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > > I know 2.7 isn't quite out the door yet, but I figured we should > > kick off the discussion of 2.8's schedule. At the QEMU Summit there > > was some discussion on how we're

Re: [Qemu-devel] proposed release timetable for 2.8

2016-09-01 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 12:18:10PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > I know 2.7 isn't quite out the door yet, but I figured we should > kick off the discussion of 2.8's schedule. At the QEMU Summit there > was some discussion on how we're doing with releases, and I think > the consensus view was that w

[Qemu-devel] proposed release timetable for 2.8

2016-09-01 Thread Peter Maydell
I know 2.7 isn't quite out the door yet, but I figured we should kick off the discussion of 2.8's schedule. At the QEMU Summit there was some discussion on how we're doing with releases, and I think the consensus view was that we should try to cut down the softfreeze period and also be stricter abo