On Thu, 24 Aug 2023 at 05:25, Peter Maydell wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2023 at 12:23, Stefan Hajnoczi 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
