From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Blue Swirl Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Planning for the 0.11.0 release Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:09:50 +0300 Message-ID: References: <4A401A65.3080804@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , kvm-devel To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.158]:37954 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760201AbZFWPJs (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:09:48 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so136630fga.17 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:09:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A401A65.3080804@us.ibm.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 6/23/09, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Hi, > > It's getting to be about the time to start thinking about the 0.11.0 > release. 0.10.0 was released on March 2nd so following with the 6 month > release cycle, that would put 0.11.0 at September 2nd. > > Based on the experiences with the stable releases, here's what I'd > recommend: > > o On July 15th, fork master -> stable-0.11 > o Change version to 0.10.90 > o Release qemu-0.11.0-rc1 > o Release additional -rcN releases every 1-2 weeks > o Introduce a new maintainer for stable-0.10 (via git pulls) > o At least 1 week before release, hopefully we'll have the final -rcN that > we can then declare 0.11.0. Sounds OK. I think OpenBIOS releases should follow similar schedule, maybe even with matching SVN tags (1.1-rc1 for 0.11.0-rc1 etc). > I think we should really try hard to make these dates. I only have a few > things that I would like to see happen before forking stable-0.11. Namely: > > o Setup qemu.org infrastructure (git hosting, wiki) > o Setup qemu bug tracker (see next mail) > o Include all ROM source code in tree via git submodules. This is a major > headache for distributors and I think it's important to resolve before our > next release. I think this is great, but OpenBIOS still uses Subversion. Can git use SVN submodules for example?