On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 06:04:10PM +0000, Lars Kurth wrote: > Wei, > could you explain what you mean by soft freeze and hard freeze. > Regards
They correspond to feature freeze and code freeze respectively. A bit more background information for developers that are new to the community. In 4.5 and 4.4 there were two freezes, one called feature freeze (soft freeze), the other called code freeze (hard freeze). In 4.4 and 4.5, feature posted before feature freeze but didn't get in before feature freeze still have a chance to get merged, provided that 1) it's in good shape, 2) there is a strong argument that it should be merged. Code freeze is the strict freezing point, when no more new features can go in after that. That model has its pros and cons. I proposed in my previous email to just scrap the feature freeze and go with only code freeze, with the hope to create shorter release cycle and smoother workflow. Wei. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
