Plans for next release?

[Christian Ehrhardt]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 1:38 PM Andrea Bolognani <abologna at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 11:21:27AM +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 10:33 AM Andrea Bolognani <abologna at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 03:53:12PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> > > > On 1/23/22 11:47 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > > > > Do you think there's any chance of that happening in the next couple
> > > > > of weeks?
> > > >
> > > > 2 weeks: maybe. 4 weeks: more likely. There's already some potentially
> > > > disruptive stuff in git like feature removals and default changes, but
> > > > there's more coming, and I'd rather they all be in one release than two
> > > > releases in close proximity. I'm actively working on it all though
> > >
> > > That makes perfect sense, and having a rough timeline should make it
> > > possible to plan the Debian work accordingly. Thanks!
> >
> > Thanks to both of you for taking care of this!
> >
> > FYI - Feb 24th is the next Ubuntu feature freeze (just the estimated 4
> > weeks from now), if we could manage to get it done by then that would
> > be great.
> > Keep me in the loop if we need a feature freeze exception.
>
> Given your deadline, I would probably not hold out for an upstream
> release and coordinate with the Debian developers to make sure a
> 3.2.0-based package that can be built against the latest libvirt
> release is available in the archive instead. You can then decide to
> rebase if the new virt-manager release materializes in time. But
> that's just how *I* would personally handle the situation :)

I'm not holding breath on anything :-)
But I did the virtual version of it [1] which allows me to wait just a
tiny bit longer.

Also I wanted to use this opportunity and the fact that since the 2-4
weeks estimate 3.5 have passed by now.
Therefore @Cole Robinson is there any update on a new release ETA
based on the work so far?

[1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virt-manager/+bug/1961027

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Christian Ehrhardt
Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
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