From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mihai =?UTF-8?B?RG9uyJt1?= Subject: Re: Xen 4.6 Development Update (two months reminder) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:01:56 +0200 Message-ID: <20150316150156.551748aa@bitdefender.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============8376087401840355029==" Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta3.messagelabs.com ([195.245.230.39]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1YXUer-0007KX-HJ for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:02:13 +0000 Received: from smtp01.buh.bitdefender.com (unknown [10.17.80.75]) by mx-sr.buh.bitdefender.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AAB780559 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:02:03 +0200 (EET) 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: wei.liu2@citrix.com Cc: elena.ufimtseva@oracle.com, artem.mygaiev@globallogic.com, quan.xu@intel.com, ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, oleksandr.dmytryshyn@globallogic.com, chegger@amazon.de, edgar.iglesias@gmail.com, cyliu@suse.com, edmund.h.white@intel.com, Steve.VanderLeest@dornerworks.com, fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz, Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com, chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com, feng.wu@intel.com, zhigang.x.wang@oracle.com, parth.dixit@linaro.org, dgolomb@seas.upenn.edu, eshelton@pobox.com, kai.huang@linux.intel.com, Paul.Skentzos@dornerworks.com, jtweaver@hawaii.edu, wency@cn.fujitsu.com, Razvan Cojocaru , oleksandr.tyshchenko@globallogic.com, guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com, daniel.kiper@oracle.com, josh.whitehead@dornerworks.com, anthony.perard@citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, manishjaggi.oss@gmail.com, olaf@aepfle.de, julien.grall@linaro.org, ian.campbell@citrix.c List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org --===============8376087401840355029== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/Ic0ahJn7DCN/ptkd7J0akvF"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" --Sig_/Ic0ahJn7DCN/ptkd7J0akvF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 10:21:56 +0000 wei.liu2@citrix.com wrote: > We are now two months into 4.6 development window. This is an email to ke= ep > track of all the patch series I gathered. It is by no means complete and = / or > acurate. Feel free to reply this email with new projects or correct my > misunderstanding. >=20 > =3D Timeline =3D >=20 > We are planning on a 9-month release cycle, but we could also release a b= it > earlier if everything goes well (no blocker, no critical bug). >=20 > * Development start: 6 Jan 2015 > <=3D=3D=3D We are here =3D=3D=3D> > * Feature Freeze: 10 Jul 2015 > * RCs: TBD > * Release Date: 9 Oct 2015 (could release earlier) >=20 > The RCs and release will of course depend on stability and bugs, and > will therefore be fairly unpredictable. >=20 > Bug-fixes, if Acked-by by maintainer, can go anytime before the First > RC. Later on we will need to figure out the risk of regression/reward > to eliminate the possiblity of a bug introducing another bug. >=20 > =3D Prognosis =3D >=20 > The states are: none -> fair -> ok -> good -> done >=20 > none - nothing yet > fair - still working on it, patches are prototypes or RFC > ok - patches posted, acting on review > good - some last minute pieces > done - all done, might have bugs >=20 > =3D Bug Fixes =3D >=20 > Bug fixes can be checked in without a freeze exception throughout the > freeze, unless the maintainer thinks they are particularly high > risk. In later RC's, we may even begin rejecting bug fixes if the > broken functionality is small and the risk to other functionality is > high. >=20 > Document changes can go in anytime if the maintainer is OK with it. >=20 > These are guidelines and principles to give you an idea where we're coming > from; if you think there's a good reason why making an exception for you = will > help us make Xen better than not doing so, feel free to make your case. >=20 > [...] I have been meaning to write this email for a while now, just to let everyone know we're working on a couple more patches related to VM introspection. They are not as big as our initial ones, but they do bring in new functionality. R=C4=83zvan Cojocaru will post a series based on Tamas' changes, as soon as it stabilizes some more or (even better) gets merged. I'll let him choose the right moment. I will also pick up some of my [oldish] patches with reviews from Andrew and Ian and also try to tackle some of the x86 emulator challenges that we talked about some months ago. We've adjusted our plans and aim for a to-the-point set of changes that allow one to built a security solution (at least) the we envision it, in terms of isolation and monitoring capability. Regards, --=20 Mihai Don=C8=9Bu --Sig_/Ic0ahJn7DCN/ptkd7J0akvF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlUG1EoACgkQfOUeqrYRMKp/vQCgtm/kEpr2QUtwyQrg+24EW/Tv wPkAnjl9AnBja0fn6+r3wHHDiwvG3pNy =Y7iR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Ic0ahJn7DCN/ptkd7J0akvF-- --===============8376087401840355029== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel --===============8376087401840355029==--