From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: Xen 4.5 development update (July update) Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 10:53:44 +0100 Message-ID: <1410256424.8217.74.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com> References: <20140902204500.D39D0DC99F@laptop.dumpdata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta14.messagelabs.com ([193.109.254.103]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1XRI7R-0004Er-71 for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:53:49 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20140902204500.D39D0DC99F@laptop.dumpdata.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: konrad.wilk@oracle.com Cc: george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, Jan Beulich , stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org I've trimmed the CC list to just xen-devel and committers/maintainers (mostly from the existing cc list, so not exhaustive). On Tue, 2014-09-02 at 16:45 -0400, konrad.wilk@oracle.com wrote: > * Coding time: <=== NOW, one week left! > > * Feature Freeze: 10th September 2014 I'm wondering if, with various maintainers and committers having been away at various points over the summer (August in particular), we should perhaps consider slipping the schedule a little bit. I was away a fair bit myself and I still have a fairly large pile of patches to wade through, many of which I consider important for 4.5[0]. I'm not sure how other maintainers feel about their respective areas. One problem with a slip is that I'm also away (conference) next week, so slipping by a week doesn't really help me all that much and slipping by more may be unpalatable to some. > * First RC: 10th October > * Release: 10th December 2014 > > The RCs and release will of course depend on stability and bugs, and > will therefore be fairly unpredictable. The feature freeze may be > slipped for especially important features which are near completion. > > If you think your patchset MUST go in Xen 4.5 I will post the procedure > for requesting an exception to get them in past the feature freeze next > week. Ian. [0] toolstack side: Wei's state preservation stuff, er, I'm sure there's more... ARM side: GICv3 support, Stefano's 1:1, Julien's passthrough stuff, the second half of Ariana's iomem stuff, the EFI stub stuff, perhaps the xenaccess stuff. And that's ignoring my own outstanding serieses