Hi everyone! I'm super excited to say that we're getting close to our first new release: gem5-20! However, there's a ton of work left for us to have a successful release. Anything you (anyone and everyone!) can do to help would be greatly appreciated!
As some of you may have noticed, our Gerrit review system has a large volume of outstanding reviews ( https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/q/status:open). At the time of writing we have around 200 changesets that have been updated since our gem5 19 release but have yet to be incorporated into the code base. Reviewing patches in a timely manner has always been a problem for us, but this problem has become more pressing due to our upcoming gem5 20 staging branch release (next Friday, May 1st). Any changes not fully incorporated to the develop branch by then will not be included in gem5 20. It'd be unfortunate for members of our community, who've dedicated significant time to improving gem5, to not see their contributions included in the upcoming release due to our reviewing bottleneck. I'm therefore writing to politely ask those of you with any spare time over the next week to lend a hand in helping us to review these outstanding changes. At this stage, help with reviewing is the most good a gem5 community member can do. We suspect the number of changesets pushed to Gerrit will spike over the coming week due to the encroaching Friday cut-off, so additional help is needed more than ever. Additionally there are still many open issues (75 as of today) tagged for gem5-20 release on Jira ( https://gem5.atlassian.net/issues/?jql=fixVersion%20%3D%20%22gem5%2020.0%22). Most of these are small (e.g., fix a failing test). If you see anything there you can help out with, please feel free to assign yourself or make a comment tagging Bobby to see if help is needed. As always, thank you all for the contributions you've made, and continue to make, to the gem5 project. gem5 20 would simply not be possible without your support. Cheers, Jason & Bobby _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list -- gem5-dev@gem5.org To unsubscribe send an email to gem5-dev-le...@gem5.org %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s
