On Thu, 24 Aug 2023 at 05:25, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Aug 2023 at 12:23, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > The QEMU 8.2 release cycle has begun. I am merging qemu.git pull > > requests for this release. You do not need to CC me on pull requests > > because I am monitoring qemu-devel. > > > > The proposed schedule is as follows: > > > > 2023-08-22 Beginning of development phase > > 2023-11-14 Soft feature freeze. Only bug fixes after this point. All > > feature changes must be already in a sub maintainer tree and all pull > > requests from submaintainers must have been sent to the list by this date. > > 2023-11-21 Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0 > > 2023-11-28 Tag rc1 > > 2023-12-05 Tag rc2 > > 2023-12-12 Tag rc3 > > 2023-12-19 Release; or tag rc4 if needed > > 2023-12-26 Release if we needed an rc4 > > > > Please let me know if these dates are inconvenient. I may adjust the > > last date depending on my availability at the end of 2023. > > Up to you, but my personal preference when doing the end-of-year > releases was to move the cycle a week or so earlier, because > it's pretty common that we need the rc4 and it's better not > to be trying to do the final release in the middle of the > holiday season (especially bearing in mind that releases > require not just your availability but also Mike Roth's).
That sounds good. I will bring the dates forward by one week. Stefan
