Re: Xen 4.4 development update: RC0 imminent

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>]

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
>> <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com> 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?

  -George