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On 10/07/2016 04:04 PM, Jason Lowe-Power wrote: > Thanks for getting back to me everyone. I'm going to send out a message to > gem5-users to make sure there are no other objections. If there's nothing > in about a week, we should shut down gem5-stable. > > Who knows how to do this / has the access to do it? I don't. > > Thanks, > Jason > > On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 5:59 AM Andreas Sandberg <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> +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..). 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