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