From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mukesh Rathor Subject: Re: Xen 4.4 development update Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 17:38:13 -0700 Message-ID: <20130812173813.54b3859e@mantra.us.oracle.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: George Dunlap Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 17:09:35 +0100 George Dunlap wrote: > This information will be mirrored on the Xen 4.4 Roadmap wiki page: > http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Roadmap/4.4 > > Rather than try to predict precisely what will make it into what > release (which was something of a disaster last release), I'm just > going to borrow a term from the Agile world and call all uncompleted > features the "Backlog". I'll still track who is doing what, and when > we get close, what state things seem to be in. > > As mentioned in another e-mail, we'll also be working on improving the > regression tester. Feel free to join us. > > And as always, if you are working on a feature / bug that you want > tracked, please respond to this e-mail. > > = Timeline = > > As discussed elsewhere, I am proposing a 6-month release cycle. Xen > 4.3 was released on 9 July. That would give us a release on 9 January > 2014. This is fairly close after the Christmas season, so I propose > to make the estimated release date later, on 21 January, giving a few > extra weeks for the holiday season: > > * Feature freeze: 18 October 2013 > * Code freezing point: 8 November 2013 > * First RC: 26 November 2013 > * Release: 21 January 2014 > > Feedback on the estimated dates is welcome. ..... > === Big ticket items === ...... > * PVH mode (w/ Linux) > owner: mukesh@oracle > status (Linux): 3rd draft patches posted. > status (Xen): v10 posted With holidays, vacation, other things on my plate i need to work on soon, the hurdles faced by V10, and still remaing tools and dom0 patch, this seems a difficult proposition for 4.4. thanks Mukesh