On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 09:04:00AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> > Following previous discussions [1], the rules for the softfreeze will be
> > changed in the QEMU 2.8 release cycle to bound the length of the freeze
> > period better.
> > 
> > Previously patch series posted on the mailing list prior to softfreeze
> > could be included in maintainers' pull requests during softfreeze.
> 
> Maybe we should call "softfreeze" simple "freeze" then to make things
> more clear.  Any features must land pull requests before freeze, period.
> We don't really have a separate hard freeze any more:  After (soft-)
> freeze only bugfixes are allowed.

Good point.  I've updated the wiki with a warning to avoid confusion for
this release.  After this release we can rename it.
http://qemu-project.org/Planning/SoftFeatureFreeze

Stefan