[PATCH] docs: add reference to release cycle discussion

[PATCH] docs: add reference to release cycle discussion

[Juergen Gross]

As it is coming up basically every release cycle of Xen, add a
reference to the discussion why the current release scheme has been
selected in the release management documentation.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
---
 docs/process/xen-release-management.pandoc | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/process/xen-release-management.pandoc b/docs/process/xen-release-management.pandoc
index b746c7157d..8f80d61d2f 100644
--- a/docs/process/xen-release-management.pandoc
+++ b/docs/process/xen-release-management.pandoc
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ The Xen hypervisor project now releases every 8 months.  We aim to
 release in the first half of March/July/November.  These dates have
 been chosen to avoid major holidays and cultural events; if one
 release slips, ideally the subsequent release cycle would be shortened.
+The reasons for this schedule have been discussed on
+[xen-devel](https://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2018-07/msg02240.html).
 
 We can roughly divide one release into two periods. The development period
 and the freeze period. The former is 6 months long and the latter is about 2
-- 
2.35.3

RE: [PATCH] docs: add reference to release cycle discussion

[Henry Wang]

Hi Juergen,

> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: [PATCH] docs: add reference to release cycle discussion
> 
> As it is coming up basically every release cycle of Xen, add a
> reference to the discussion why the current release scheme has been
> selected in the release management documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

Thanks very much for this information and the change.

Reviewed-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
Acked-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>

Also btw, I have posted a proposal for the Xen 4.17 release [1],
we can start the discussion there.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/AS8PR08MB7991145C8063D6939AFFED8F92829@AS8PR08MB7991.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com/

Kind regards,
Henry

Re: [PATCH] docs: add reference to release cycle discussion

[Jan Beulich]

On 08.07.2022 06:12, Juergen Gross wrote:
> As it is coming up basically every release cycle of Xen, add a
> reference to the discussion why the current release scheme has been
> selected in the release management documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>