[libvirt] [Libvirt-announce] Start of freeze for libvirt-0.9.8 and availability of rc1

[Daniel Veillard]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 02:11:24PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/30/2011 10:48 PM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   We are now entering the freeze for libvirt-0.9.8 .
> > For portability sake I think adding more support for PPC machines
> > should still be allowed for a few days, as long as it's not impacting
> > too much of the common code.
> > 
> > I have made a release candidate 1 tarball (and associated rpms) at
> >    ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-0.9.8-rc1.tar.gz
> > and the git tree is tagged.
> > 
> > I think I will make an rc2 on Mon or Thu and then try to
> > make the release around Thursday next week if things
> > looks good.
> > 
> >  Please give it a try !
> 
> On IRC:
> 
> eblake	DV: it looks like you missed my gnulib update for rc1 - what do
> we do about that?
> DV	eblake: oops, well let's update in git
> DV	it will be in rc2, as long as there is a release candidate with the
> update I think it's fine
> 
> I'll use that to justify pushing my pending gnulib update now.
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-November/msg01635.html
> 
> But that means we really are committing to an rc2.

  Definitely. For example there is apparently a problem with commit
fa9595003d043df9f2efe95521c00898cef27106 that we ough to fix quickly too
to allow further testing :-)

Daniel

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