[Spice-devel] Status of 0.6 release

[Todd Deshane]

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Dor Laor <dlaor at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 07/05/2010 04:44 PM, Alexander Larsson wrote:
>> Ugh. This is really really bad news. We've set the freeze date at july
>> 19th so that we had a chance to finish things for the Fedora 14 feature
>> freeze a week later (July 27th). But unless we can get spice support
>> into the qemu in fedora we will have a hard time getting spice into
>> fedora (no users of the library), and if spice support is not in
>> upstream qemu its very unlikely that we'll get spice support in the F14
>> qemu (standard "focus on upstream" fedora prio).
>
> Prio but not a must. Focus on users is also nice ...
> Spice in F14 is doable w/o qemu acceptance too.
>

I think that even if it doesn't get pushed into F14 in time, as long
as there is a good working package available, there will be a lot of
testing from early adopters. We really want to roll out a version in
our lab this fall, for example. The real users are going to be the
more tech savvy that are willing to install from a spice repo, test,
report bugs, write howtos, etc. You probably really want that sort of
testing before it lands in an official Fedora release inside of
upstream qemu anyway. I really don't think you will lose too many
users as long as there is something for us that is stable and usable
that can be installed.

Also I think that it is important that there are solid Ubuntu,
Windows, and Mac OS clients available, as possible. This will increase
the client user base and also the amount of testing will be increase a
lot.

Thanks,
Todd

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