Re: Xen 4.7 Development Update

[Meng Xu <xumengpanda@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 6:17 AM, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com> wrote:
> NOTE: We are one month away from freeze. Features that wish to be in 4.7 must
> be posted to xen-devel by March 18.
>
> This email only tracks big items for xen.git tree. Please reply for items you
> woulk like to see in 4.7 so that people have an idea what is going on and
> prioritise accordingly.
>
> You're welcome to provide description and use cases of the feature you're
> working on.
>
> = Timeline =
>
> We now adopt a fixed cut-off date scheme. We will release twice a
> year. The upcoming 4.7 timeline are as followed:
>
> * Last posting date: March 18, 2016
> * Hard code freeze: April 1, 2016
> * RC1: TBD
> * Release: June 3, 2016
>
> Note that we don't have freeze exception scheme anymore. All patches
> that wish to go into 4.7 must be posted no later than the last posting
> date. All patches posted after that date will be automatically queued
> into next release.
>
> RCs will be arranged immediately after freeze.
>
> = Projects =
>
> == Hypervisor ==
>
> *  Convert RTDS from time to event-driven model
>   -  Meng Xu
>   -  Tianyang Chen

We will try our best to meet this release cycle, although we are not
very sure if we can definitely meet the deadline. The patch is in a
correct direction and is in a good state, though.

Dario, what do you think? If we move faster this week in resolving the
comments, is there any chance that we could potentially finish it?

Thanks,

Meng

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Meng Xu
PhD Student in Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mengxu/

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