From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: Which trees are supported (Was: Re: [qemu-upstream-4.2-testing test] 77180: regressions - FAIL) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 09:22:00 +0000 Message-ID: <1453454520.7675.5.camel@citrix.com> References: <1452160573.21055.147.camel@citrix.com> <1452165737.21055.197.camel@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1452165737.21055.197.camel@citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Jackson , Stefano Stabellini , Jan Beulich , Wei Liu Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Lars Kurth List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, 2016-01-07 at 11:22 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > So this arose because Stefano was unaware that 4.2 was no longer > supported. > Neither am I ever confident about where the cut-off lie, e.g. I > always have > to ask if I am doing backports for a security issue. > = > We should add rows to = > http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Release_Features=A0right > under Initial Release giving first the date until which that tree is > supported with backports and second the date until which security > support > will exist. We might also want to add a third "status" row. e.g. > "Supported", "Security Support only", "EOL" (we'll deal with extended > support by a third party when that next arises). > = > I'm happy to make the edits, however I don't know what dates I would > write = > here. Taking it to be 18 months of Support and a further 18 months of > security support I would get: > Xen 4.0 Xen 4.1 Xen 4.2 X= en 4.3 Xen 4.4 Xen 4.5 Xen 4.6 > Initial Release 7 April 2010 25 March 2011 17 Sept 2012 9= July 2013 10 March 2014 15 Jan 2015 13 Oct 2015 = > Supported until EOL - ??? EOL - ??? EOL - ??? E= OL - Jan 2015 EOL - Sept 2015 July 2016 April 2017 > Security support til EOL - ??? EOL - ??? EOL - ??? J= uly 2016 March 2016 Jan 2017 Oct 2018 George pointed out that 4.4 only has 6 months security support here, which is just me counting wrong I think. It should be March 2017. Likewise 4.5 followed suite. Both of them should have been 1 year later. I have updated the wiki. Ian.