On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 04:41:32PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > I think it's time to start planning the next seabios release. First, > because a bunch of changes have piled up in master. And second, because > of the smbios changes. They are a step forward in making seabios less > dependent on qemu internals and I want have that in qemu soonish. > > So, how about this plan: > > (1) merge smbios patches in qemu (patchset is close to final now). > (2) merge smbios patch in seabios > (3) start freeze > (4) tag release candidate (early may is realistic for that I think). > (5) pull release candidate into qemu for wider testing > (6) merge bugfix patches if needed > (7) tag final release 2-3 weeks after release candidate (end of > may probably). > (8) pull final release into qemu. > > Comments?
A release around the end of May sounds good to me. I think we should aim for a feature freeze of no more than two weeks - if any problems or defects are found then we can extend the release. I have some ideas for possible code changes after the next release. I'll send a separate email. -Kevin
