I agree with #1. The existence of gem5-stable is just confusing, since we don't have a good process to keep it up-to-date.
Steve On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 8:56 AM Beckmann, Brad <[email protected]> wrote: > I strongly support 1 as well. > > Brad > > > -----Original Message----- > From: gem5-dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andreas > Hansson > Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 7:03 AM > To: gem5 Developer List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [gem5-dev] Stable release > > Hi Jason, > > I support 1 for now (based on example the argument you mention). Once we > have moved to git we can reconsider. > > Andreas > > On 30/09/2016, 15:00, "gem5-dev on behalf of Jason Lowe-Power" > <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: > > >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 > > IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are > confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended > recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the > contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the > information in any medium. Thank you. > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
