Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU 2.7 release schedule?

2016-06-09 Thread Peter Maydell
On 7 June 2016 at 20:15, Michael Roth wrote: > Quoting Peter Maydell (2016-06-07 13:45:06) >> But I think the real problem with a schedule which expects a >> release at the tail end of August is that we then only have >> three and a half months left til mid-December which is in >> practice the lat

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU 2.7 release schedule?

2016-06-07 Thread Michael Roth
Quoting Peter Maydell (2016-06-07 13:45:06) > On 7 June 2016 at 18:29, Michael Roth wrote: > > I think it is actually bit shorter of a window this time. The last few > > releases had around 2.5 to 3 months between n-1 release and hard freeze / > > rc0 > > for n+1, but the proposed date would be j

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU 2.7 release schedule?

2016-06-07 Thread Peter Maydell
On 7 June 2016 at 18:29, Michael Roth wrote: > I think it is actually bit shorter of a window this time. The last few > releases had around 2.5 to 3 months between n-1 release and hard freeze / rc0 > for n+1, but the proposed date would be just around 2 months. Yeah, it's a bit short because the

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU 2.7 release schedule?

2016-06-07 Thread Michael Roth
Quoting Alex Bennée (2016-06-07 02:29:38) > > Peter Maydell writes: > > > Well, time to make a decision about our release date for 2.7. > > > > If you start out with "let's put the release in august like it > > usually is but not so close to KVM Forum (24-26 Aug) as to > > be likely to slip in t

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU 2.7 release schedule?

2016-06-07 Thread Peter Maydell
On 7 June 2016 at 08:29, Alex Bennée wrote: > Do you collect a list of baking features likely to go in or is it just a > case of "patches have been on list by now"? I don't collect feature lists; I treat QEMU releases as roughly fixed dates, and whatever's ready to go in gets in. We have settled

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU 2.7 release schedule?

2016-06-07 Thread Alex Bennée
Peter Maydell writes: > Well, time to make a decision about our release date for 2.7. > > If you start out with "let's put the release in august like it > usually is but not so close to KVM Forum (24-26 Aug) as to > be likely to slip in to it", then you get something like: > > Jun 21 softfreeze

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU 2.7 release schedule?

2016-06-06 Thread Christian Borntraeger
On 06/06/2016 05:34 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > Well, time to make a decision about our release date for 2.7. > > If you start out with "let's put the release in august like it > usually is but not so close to KVM Forum (24-26 Aug) as to > be likely to slip in to it", then you get something like: >

[Qemu-devel] QEMU 2.7 release schedule?

2016-06-06 Thread Peter Maydell
Well, time to make a decision about our release date for 2.7. If you start out with "let's put the release in august like it usually is but not so close to KVM Forum (24-26 Aug) as to be likely to slip in to it", then you get something like: Jun 21 softfreeze Jul 12 hardfreeze, rc0 Jul 19 rc1 Jul