Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu stable releases

2011-12-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 02:08:03PM -0600, Justin M. Forbes wrote: The stable tree for 1.0 has now been created and the mailing list exists. I am curious as to people's thoughts on how we should proceed. There was discussion of setting up a predictable time table for stable releases, say

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu stable releases

2011-12-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 10:39:37AM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: FWIW in libguestfs we have such a policy. Every few weeks I evaluate _all_ commits along the development branch and cherry pick those that meet this policy back to the stable branch, followed by making a new stable release.

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu stable releases

2011-12-09 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 05.12.2011 21:08, schrieb Justin M. Forbes: Typically I get a flurry of patches shortly after a release (and they have already started for 1.0). I have tried to get a .1 release out in a timely manner, and then it seems patches for stable become few and far between. In the 0.14 and 0.15

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu stable releases

2011-12-09 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 12/09/2011 06:55 AM, Andreas Färber wrote: Am 05.12.2011 21:08, schrieb Justin M. Forbes: Typically I get a flurry of patches shortly after a release (and they have already started for 1.0). I have tried to get a .1 release out in a timely manner, and then it seems patches for stable become

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu stable releases

2011-12-09 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 12/09/2011 06:01 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 10:39:37AM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: FWIW in libguestfs we have such a policy. Every few weeks I evaluate _all_ commits along the development branch and cherry pick those that meet this policy back to the stable

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu stable releases

2011-12-09 Thread Justin M. Forbes
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 13:55 +0100, Andreas Färber wrote: Am 05.12.2011 21:08, schrieb Justin M. Forbes: Typically I get a flurry of patches shortly after a release (and they have already started for 1.0). I have tried to get a .1 release out in a timely manner, and then it seems patches

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu stable releases

2011-12-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 07:25:39AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 12/09/2011 06:01 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 10:39:37AM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: FWIW in libguestfs we have such a policy. Every few weeks I evaluate _all_ commits along the development

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu stable releases

2011-12-09 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 09.12.2011 14:24, schrieb Anthony Liguori: On 12/09/2011 06:55 AM, Andreas Färber wrote: Am 05.12.2011 21:08, schrieb Justin M. Forbes: Typically I get a flurry of patches shortly after a release (and they have already started for 1.0). I have tried to get a .1 release out in a timely

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu stable releases

2011-12-06 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Justin M. Forbes jmfor...@linuxtx.org wrote: The stable tree for 1.0 has now been created and the mailing list exists. Where does the stable 1.0 tree live? Stefan

[Qemu-devel] Qemu stable releases

2011-12-05 Thread Justin M. Forbes
The stable tree for 1.0 has now been created and the mailing list exists. I am curious as to people's thoughts on how we should proceed. There was discussion of setting up a predictable time table for stable releases, say monthly or bimonthly, though that seems a bit difficult from past