From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wei Liu Subject: Re: Xen 4.4 development update: RC0 imminent Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 16:34:25 +0000 Message-ID: <20131205163425.GA27631@zion.uk.xensource.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta14.messagelabs.com ([193.109.254.103]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Vobsj-0001Aj-8p for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2013 16:34:29 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: George Dunlap Cc: Wei Liu , Vladimir =?utf-8?Q?'=CF=86-coder=2Fphcoder'?= Serbinenko , Fabio Fantoni , David Vrabel , xen-devel , Roger Pau =?iso-8859-1?Q?Monn=E9?= List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 04:29:08PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:09 PM, George Dunlap > wrote: > > This information will be mirrored on the Xen 4.4 Roadmap wiki page: > > http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Roadmap/4.4 > > > > We're nearly to the completion of the code freeze, scheduled for > > tomorrow. After the code freeze, only bug fixes and features marked > > as "blockers" will be considered. At the moment, the only feature > > considered a blocker is experimental PVH dom0 support. > > > > In early RCs, most bug fixes will be accepted; but in later RCs, even > > bug fixes may be rejected if they risk breaking more important > > functionality than they fix. > > > > I don't think at this point every bug fix needs a blessing from me; > > committers, if there are fixes which are obviously low-risk, just go > > ahead and check them in. > > > > I was thinking that for some of our new features, it would be good to > > have a blog post describing the feature and how to test it. This > > would both raise awareness of the feature, and hopefully get it more > > testing before the release. We could choose a couple to focus on for > > each test day. > > Features which might be worth highlighting for testing in blogs: > > * Non-udev scripts for driver domains (non-Linux driver domains) > - Roger Pau Monne > > * PHV domU (experimental only) > > * Improved Spice support on libxl > - Fabio Fantoni > > * Event channel scalability > - David Vrabel > > * pvgrub2 checked into grub upstream (external) > - Vladmir Servinenko > > * Guest EFI booting (tianocore) > - Wei Liu > A bunch of critical patches are neither applied upstream nor in our tree (though they are already acked / reviewed by maintainers), so I don't think we want to advertise it as "working"... Wei.