I've put up a draft release schedule at: https://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/3.0
2018-04-24 Beginning of development phase 2018-07-03 Soft feature freeze. 2018-07-10 Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0 2018-07-17 Tag rc1 2018-07-24 Tag rc2 2018-07-31 Tag rc3 2018-08-07 Release, or if necessary, tag rc4 2018-08-14 Release, if we needed rc4 It's a touch earlier than last year, so we're definitely finished before the end of August. Does this work for people? thanks -- PMM
