[libvirt] Planning for next release

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:21:06PM +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 03:05:24PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 01:13:04PM +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 09:46:00PM -0600, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> > > > > On Nov 18, 2013, at 8:09 PM, Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > >  If we want to land a release on Mon Dec 2, I would suggest entering
> > > > > freeze next week. The amount of patches since 1.1.4 is not very large
> > > > > so we could start the freeze say on Wed 27, but IMHO it all depennds if
> > > > > Dan patches about splitting out the python bindings gets in for that
> > > > > release. If yes I would probably prefer to freeze one more day (start
> > > > > Tues 26), and bump release name to 1.2.0 as this is a significant change
> > > > > from an user perspective, otherwise 1.1.5 and freeze next Wed.
> > > > > 
> > > > >    Opinions ? Dan do you think you can/want to land this set in the
> > > > > coming week ?
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > See my patch set on the mailing list that completes most of the
> > > > remaining items so it should be possible. Obviously it needs a lot of
> > > > testing and review, I also did not incorporate Eric's reviews to Dan's
> > > > patches yet but it works on Fedora 18 and some other Linuxes so it should
> > > > be doable.
> > > 
> > >   Yup, saw that, thanks ! I guess we need Dan ACK to push but IMHO the
> > > sooner the better, the kind of problems we are gonna find will be with
> > > portability and pushing is the best way to get tested :-)
> > 
> > Given Doug's work we're probably at a state where we can do a real
> > release of the separated bindings. We've a little more work to make
> > python code work with libvirt back to 0.9.6 which is what OpenStack
> > targets as a min version. We also found we missed moving the
> > example programs. Those two things should be doable though.
> > 
> > Agree that we should probably take the chance to bump the version
> > to 1.2.0 since it is a significant milestone.
> 
>   Okay, so let's get this pushed preferably this week and enter 1.2.0
> freeze for next Tuesday 26 Nov,

The work is ready from my POV. Now we need other people to confirm
that they can build it, in particular you :-) See the end of this
mail for location of the git repo, that I'll move to libvirt.org
git once people confirm it is good.

  http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-November/msg00892.html

Regards,
Daniel
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