Re: [virtio] scheduled draft releases

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 10:22:57AM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 06:27:47 +0300
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> > I think we should try to start doing time-based releases.
> 
> Any way that makes us get out updates more regularly sounds like a good
> idea. 
> 
> > Drafts:
> > 	- Ideally we'd just do periodic snapshots
> > 	  say once each two weeks.
> > 	  Unfortunately it seems that OASIS requires
> > 	  us to vote on releasing every draft.
> > 	  Should be a quick vote though.
> 
> Every other week might be a bit too often, especially as we have to
> vote on each one. Once per month?
> 
> > 
> > Public Release Drafts:
> > 
> > 	- Let's try to do say twice a year?
> 
> Sounds good to me.
> 
> > 
> > Things we'll probably see in the next one:
> > - packed rings
> > - SRIOV
> > 
> > Things we might see:
> > - crypto
> > - vsock
> > - input
> > - gpu
> 
> Would be great if these were ready.
> 
> > 
> > too much to hope for:
> > - 9pfs
> > - procrpmsg
> > 
> 
> ISTR that we reserved some ids for other devices... not sure what the
> status for these is.

I think there's work on pmem, but it seems the semantics are
still being worked out.

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MST