Thanks for bringing this up. It's been a long time since we've discussed gem5-stable on the mailing list.
I propose that we come up with a few options on what we, as a community, want to do with gem5-stable, vote on them, and then stick to our decision. Below is what I see are the options. If anyone else has other ideas, please chime in! 1. Get rid of gem5-stable. 2. Continue with the previous approach of tagging gem5 every quarter and releasing a gem5-stable branch. 3. Develop a process of milestones and release after each milestone is complete. Between milestone releases, we can backport bugfixes into gem5-stable. My opinions: 1. gem5-stable is no more bug-free than gem5-dev. It's only "stable" in the sense that we never commit to it. *I think this is what we should do for now.* 2. I don't think that the previous gem5-stable approach of tagging gem5 quarterly provides any added benefit. Users can just as easily clone gem5-dev and just not update if they want a "stable" platform. That's all gem5-stable was anyway. 3. I think having milestones and true "releases" would be the best thing we can do. However, I don't think we are currently at a place where we can implement this. If I'm wrong, and someone in the community wants to step up and take this responsibility, I think it would really benefit our users. What do other's think? Cheers, Jason On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 4:24 AM Pierre-Yves Péneau < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Since September 2015, gem5 has no stable version. However, a high > activity has been observed this year, and a lot of major features have > been added (big.LITTLE support, power modeling, new GPUs, ElasticTraces > etc..). I am wondering if there is any plan to release a new stable > version in the next weeks/months ? > > Thank you. > > -- > +-------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Pierre-Yves Péneau - PhD student | first.last at lirmm.fr | > | LIRMM / CNRS - SYSMIC team | + 33 4 67 41 86 33 | > | Building 4 Office H2.2 | http://walafc0.org | > +-------------------------------------------------------------+ > _______________________________________________ > gem5-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev > _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
