Re: Xen 4.5 Development Update (GA slip by a week)

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 02:40:31PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> (CC list replaced by just the list.)
> 
> konrad.wilk@oracle.com writes ("Xen 4.5 Development Update (GA slip by a week)"):
> > <==== WE ARE HERE ===>
> >  Release Date: Jan 14th.
> 
> There are two remaining dates left unspecified in your mail:
> 
>  * When do we branch for 4.5 ?  I think we should do this right away
>    so that we can set up osstest to have a working push gate for 4.5
>    by the time of the release.

I concur. Would you be OK doing that?


> 
>    This will work best with coordination with all committers to avoid
>    stuff appearing on staging after staging-4.5 is created.

Um, not following you. I think we want people to put patches in staging,
just not 4.5 material?


> 
>    The implication of branching of course is that 4.6-unstable becomes
>    open for business.

Right.
> 
>  * What is the last commit deadline for 4.5 ?
> 
>    We need time to wait for a test push, discover a possible problem,
>    and perhaps revert.  A week would be best, but maybe a bit less

How long do those 'test push' take?
>    would be OK.
> 
> Ian.