Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.3 release planning proposal

[Attilio Rao <attilio.rao@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 21/08/12 15:43, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > On 20.08.12 at 18:46, George Dunlap<George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > > >          
> > So I propose that we move to a time-based release schedule.  Rather
> > than aiming for a release date, I propose that we aim to do a "feature
> > freeze" six months after the 4.2 release -- that would be around March
> > 1, 2013.  That way we'll probably end up releasing in 9 months' time,
> > around June 2013.  This is one of the things we can discuss at the Dev
> > Meeting before the Xen Summit next week.  If you have other opinions,
> > please let us know.
> >      
> That would make for a scheduled 3 month feature freeze. I don't
> recall for how long we've been in feature freeze for 4.2 now, but
> from my perspective this is already definitely too long. Over that
> time I accumulated around 50 patches (not counting the bug fixes
> that I keep posting), and I'm sure it was never that bad during
> earlier feature freeze periods.
>
>    
> > * Event channel scalability
> >    owner: attilio@citrix
> >    Increase limit on event channels (currently 1024 for 32-bit guests,
> >    4096 for 64-bit guests)
> >      
> This one I have on my todo list as well.
>
>    
Do you mean that you already have a patch for that?
I'm starting making a complete plan for it. I discussed with Ian 
Campbell some aspects and I plan to send a detailed e-mail in the next 
few days.
Attilio

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