[Since Hilko asked me about this on IRC ...]
The current plan is to rebase libguestfs in RHEL 6.3:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=719879
I would like to get as many features from upstream libguestfs into
this as possible, but also make sure they have been well-tested by
Fedora users. Also there are some new tools arriving in libguestfs
upstream in the current development branch (1.13.x):
- virt-alignment-scan
http://libguestfs.org/virt-alignment-scan.1.html
- virt-sparsify
http://libguestfs.org/virt-sparsify.1.html
- A tool (or tools) to replace virt-clone
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/virt-tools-survey-virt-clone/
So this is my plan, assuming no one has any strong objections:
(1) Continue development of the new virt tools in libguestfs for the
rest of this month.
(2) Release 1.14.0 new stable branch around the end of this month (Oct'11)
(3) Put this new stable version into Fedora 16 after 16 is released.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16/Schedule
(4) Test, test, test. Backport bugfixes into 1.14.x branch as per the
usual plan.
http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#libguestfs_version_numbers
(5) Put 1.14.x into RHEL 6.3 (around 1Q 2012).
Comments?
Rich.
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Just a reminder that bugs which are candidates to be fixed before 1.14 should have "1.14" (without quotes) in the Devel Whiteboard field in Bugzilla. Such bugs will appear in this Bugzilla query: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&field0-0-0=cf_devel_whiteboard&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=MODIFIED&bug_status=ON_DEV&bug_status=ON_QA&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=FAILS_QA&bug_status=RELEASE_PENDING&bug_status=POST&bug_status=PASSES_QA&type0-0-0=anywords&value0-0-0=1.14&component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization%20Tools or: http://tinyurl.com/6hqlfzg Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 06:33:59PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:> [Since Hilko asked me about this on IRC ...] > > The current plan is to rebase libguestfs in RHEL 6.3: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=719879 > > I would like to get as many features from upstream libguestfs into > this as possible, but also make sure they have been well-tested by > Fedora users. Also there are some new tools arriving in libguestfs > upstream in the current development branch (1.13.x): > > - virt-alignment-scan > http://libguestfs.org/virt-alignment-scan.1.html > > - virt-sparsify > http://libguestfs.org/virt-sparsify.1.html > > - A tool (or tools) to replace virt-clone > https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/virt-tools-survey-virt-clone/ > > So this is my plan, assuming no one has any strong objections: > > (1) Continue development of the new virt tools in libguestfs for the > rest of this month. > > (2) Release 1.14.0 new stable branch around the end of this month (Oct'11)Today is absolutely the last day for any features or fixes that need to go into 1.14. This is the list of new APIs which will become official and stable, so any problems with these, please say so now ... compress-device-out http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_compress_device_out compress-out http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_compress_out copy-device-to-device http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_copy_device_to_device copy-device-to-file http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_copy_device_to_file copy-file-to-device http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_copy_file_to_device copy-file-to-file http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_copy_file_to_file part-to-partnum http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_part_to_partnum set-smp http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_set_smp get-smp http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_get_smp Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora