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 16:48:41 +0000 Message-ID: <20131205164841.GB27631@zion.uk.xensource.com> References: <20131205163425.GA27631@zion.uk.xensource.com> <52A0AC3F.2010605@eu.citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta5.messagelabs.com ([195.245.231.135]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Voc6Z-0003mf-CK for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2013 16:48:47 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <52A0AC3F.2010605@eu.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: 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 04:39:27PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote: > On 12/05/2013 04:34 PM, Wei Liu wrote: > >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"... > > OK -- would the Xen side of these be something that could come in as > "bug fixes", or should I take this off the list of 4.4 features? > I pinged maintainer this morning, let's see his response later. He's in GMT -8 timezone. If we cannot get it merged within next week I would rather take it off our list. Wei. > -George