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= Attendees =

* Andres Lagar-Cavilla
* Boris Ostrovsky
* Daniel De Graf
* Don Dugger
* George Dunlap
* James Bulpin
* Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
* Lars Kurth
* Matt Wilson
* Sherry Hurwitz
* Ian Campbell

= Review ACTIONS =

* Nested HVM:
** Don:
    thread didn't happen but work is on going.

** Sherry: 
   AMD is actively testing
   Christoph Egger has helped out a bit
   ACTION: Carried over, was started in May, but not much activity due to vacations

* Konrad: to approach Coverity about free service and ask about security
   Lars offered to sync up with Coverity at CLS ... no Coverty rep attended

= Ongoing work  =
Boris: How do we handle incomplete features in Xen?

George: depends on size and risk of feature. We can mark it as experimental. Note that we don't have a separate staging tree, so we tend to not compile incomplete features by default. Example boot options (not enabled by default).

Konrad: asked whether we had a general rule/guidance about this

George: We tend to #ifdef incomplete code out. For example PVH code can be checked in with #ifdef's to reduce the need for catch-ups. There is also the option to host personal public branches on a xenbits git tree

= Coordination on current & future work =

== Xen 4.4 Planning ==
Goals
* Shorter release cycle (from 9 to 6 months) - see George's 1st  4.4 Development Update on xen-devel. Advantages: shorter RCs, less impact if changes are missed 

Proposal:
* Plan for Jan 21st release of 4.4
* Feature freeze mid-October

{{Action|All}} provide feedback, raise hands if this is an issue

George has an internal backlog. Big items:
* Event Channel Scalability
* PVH Mode
* Credit2 scheduler as default
* I/O improvements - see Hackathon minutes at http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Hackathon#May_2013_.5BHackathon_Minutes.5D
* Elena's virtual NUMA topology work
* Nested Virt: would like to move to production in 4.4

{{Action|George}} Kick of 4.4 planning discussion on xen-devel {{Tick}}

= Community news, activities =

Lars: explained that the Xen 4.3 press release gave us the best coverage since Lars took over

{{Action|Lars}} send press report to list - attached {{Tick}} 

Lars: reminded everyone of Xen User Summit and Xen Developer Summit CfPs

Question: will sessions be recorded? 

Lars: Yes, we will record screens and voice (aka voiced over presentations) and post on xenproject.org (as well as vimeo and slideshare)

= AOB =
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