On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 04:23:59PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:51:03 +0100 > Peter Maydell <[email protected]> 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...
We definitely want this to match the overall release name, so we'll
need to change it if we decide on something other than 2.13.
>
> > (2) release timing:
> > * usual schedule would give us a next release mid-to-late August
> > * unless I can persuade Stefan to do the release management this
> > cycle we might need to wind that in by a couple of weeks so
> > it's definitely done by the middle of August, to avoid a clash
> > with a personal commitment
> > * so probably hardfreeze 10th July, softfreeze 3rd July
> >
> > (3) retrospective, lessons learned &c
> > * please remember that if every single submaintainer submits
> > a pull request on the morning of an RC, it is physically
> > not possible for me to process all those pulls in time to
> > tag the RC that day. We had several RCs which got delayed
> > by a day because of this; please try to submit earlier
> > rather than later...
> > * provide your opinions here ?
> >
> > thanks
> > -- PMM
> >
>
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