I am glad to see that my email leads to quick response and action :-)
Thank you all.

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..). I am wondering if there is any plan to release
>>>> a new stable version in the next weeks/months ?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
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