Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On 30 April 2018 at 15:23, Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:51:03 +0100
> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi; I usually let people forget about releases for a month or
>> so before bringing this topic up, but:
>>
>> (1) do we want to call the next release 2.13, or something else?
>> There's no particular reason to bump to 3.0 except some combination of
>>  * if we keep going like this we'll get up to 2.42, which starts to
>>    get silly
>>  * Linus-style "avoid being too predictable"
>>  * triskaidekaphobia
>> but maybe we should anyway?
>>
>
> Do we care for machine versions to stick to QEMU versions ? I ask,
> because we've already added a pseries-2.13 machine type (in master
> since David's latest pull req). No big deal though if we have to
> turn it into pseries-3.0 I guess...

Yeah, we'd just bump that to pseries-3.0.

(We should probably have some more formal process for ensuring
that all our versioned machines get a version for the new
release at some point before rc0. We've been close to forgetting
for virt once or twice.)

thanks
-- PMM