From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jan Beulich" Subject: Re: Xen 4.5 development update (July update) Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 15:30:41 +0100 Message-ID: <540F2B310200007800032C2A@mail.emea.novell.com> References: <20140902204500.D39D0DC99F@laptop.dumpdata.com> <1410256424.8217.74.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com> <540EF2F802000078000328A0@mail.emea.novell.com> <20140909140921.GF5435@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 1XRMRS-0003RN-S3 for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 14:30:46 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20140909140921.GF5435@laptop.dumpdata.com> Content-Disposition: inline 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 Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, Ian Campbell , stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org >>> On 09.09.14 at 16:09, wrote: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 11:30:48AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: >> >>> On 09.09.14 at 11:53, wrote: >> > 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. >> >> A certain amount of slip would likely help me too, as would if the flood >> of patches (or revisions thereof) would start to decrease. I think we >> need to consider taking some measures to prevent everyone wanting >> to rush in their changes during the last couple of weeks before the >> freeze (irrespective of how long ago a first iteration may have been >> posted). I can only say that with the current situation (which I don't >> think was ever that bad), and with the need for me to do things other >> than patch reviewing, I'm not going to feel bad at all if some or all of >> those series miss 4.5 even if that's only because I didn't get to look at >> the n-th iteration thereof. > > Hehe. > > What is a comfortable amount of time for folks to feel that they can get > some code in? > > Would a two week slippage be too little? Three weeks? > One month slippage scares me. Me too; just any shift would help me. Jan