+1 for #1 from me as well. Ideally, I’d like to see #3, but I don’t think we can make that work at the moment.
//Andreas On 03/10/2016, 01:06, "gem5-dev on behalf of Steve Reinhardt" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> on behalf of [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: 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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> on behalf of [email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> >> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev >> >_______________________________________________ >gem5-dev mailing list >[email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[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
