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[virtio 1.3] Reminder: Feature freeze coming up on July 1st

  • 1.  [virtio 1.3] Reminder: Feature freeze coming up on July 1st

    Posted 06-05-2023 17:10
    As outlined in
    https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/virtio/202304/msg00036.html ff.,
    we'll soon start the process of getting version 1.3 of the virtio spec
    released. As a first step, we'll enter feature freeze on July 1st. This
    means:

    ***
    By July 1st, all not yet integrated features that are targeting 1.3 need
    to have at least a github issue open that is pointing to a patch (set)
    on the list.
    ***

    This should hopefully give us enough time to conclude voting for those
    features before we enter change freeze on August 1st.

    virtio 1.3 timeline:

    Development <-- we are here

    July 1st: feature freeze (github issue
    and change on list)

    August 1st: change freeze (all voted
    upon)

    virtio-next development branch opens

    August: prepare draft

    August 31st (latest): draft voted upon by TC

    September: public review period

    October: addtl public review period, if needed

    October (November): 1.3 released

    merge virtio-next development branch