On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 05:41:34PM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
> Hi Cornelia, Michael,
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> open.org> On Behalf Of Cornelia Huck
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> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2023 12:17 PM
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> > >> - July 1st 2023: enter feature freeze; all proposed changes must at
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least have an open github issue that refers to a proposal on-list
> > >> - August 1st 2023: enter change freeze; everything needs to have been
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voted upon (i.e. we can start with preparations for a release like
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compiling the change log)
> > >> - at the same time, fork virtio-next, which can be used for development
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while we're working on the release
> > >> - August/September 2023: prepare draft, initiate initial voting etc.
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> Hmm looks like you forgot a 30 day the public review period (or is
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> that included in the "etc"? ). During this period we will likely
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> receive review comments which we have to address. Should the changes
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> turn out to be material, another public review period will be required.
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> Let's spell it out please.
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> Yeah, that's what I meant with "etc"... let's make this:
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> > - August 2023: prepare draft, aim to have it ready and voted upon by
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August 31 the latest (preferrably earlier)
> > - September 2023: public review period (30 days)
> > - October 2023: another public review period, if needed; otherwise, get
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comittee specification ready and voted upon
> > - October (maybe November, if we're running late) 2023: virtio 1.3
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released
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> The most important dates are feature freeze on Jul 1 and change freeze on Aug
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> 1, I guess; for the rest, we depend on whether people are out on PTO, which
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> kind of feedback we get, etc. -- but as long as we release
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> 1.3 in 2023, I'll be happy enough.
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> We have two extension features that has gone through several reviews and are in advance stage (and also late) for 1.3. :)
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> 1. inner hash v19, rolling to v20 anytime this week. 1 Patch.
> [1] https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/virtio-comment/202306/msg00490.html
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> 2. first user of aq for legacy access at v7.
> 2 patches. First 2 are Fixes.
> [2] https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/virtio-comment/202306/msg00491.html
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> Both need few more days of review and vote.
> Shall we please have few days in July for them so that it can be part of 1.3?
> or whole July is needed to prepare the draft spec?
I think it's not too bad, projects that do releases every couple of
months can afford to be strict, we do them ones a year and a half
it makes sense to be flexible.
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MST
