Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.5 v7 0/7] Xen VMware tools support

[Don Slutz <dslutz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/16/14 08:22, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > On 16.10.14 at 14:10, <dslutz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 10/16/14 04:12, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > > > On 02.10.14 at 23:30, <dslutz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Just for the record - I do not see this as warranting a release exception.
> > > The effort to get this in place was started way too late, and shouldn't
> > > be rushed close to or already beyond the feature freeze point.
> > Being first posted on Sept 1, 2014:
> >
> > From: Don Slutz <dslutz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 11:33:46 -0400
> > Message-ID: <1409585629-25840-1-git-send-email-dslutz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] Xen VMware tools support
> >
> > and a feature freeze of 10th September 2014, I would not expect to
> > need a release exception.
> I hope you didn't mean this seriously: That might have been okay
> for a feature that can be expected to not need a lot of discussion
> and is relatively limited in the amount of code it touches. But
> generally, and particularly for anything larger, please get used to
> starting the work and discussion early, not near the end of a
> development cycle.
Clearly I did not understand this correctly.  Sorry about that.  I did 
attempt
to start this discussion early (December 13, 2013), but failed (do to other
things) to post the v2 until Sept 1, 2014.

   -Don Slutz

> Jan

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