From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lars Kurth Subject: Re: Xen 4.4 development update: RC0 imminent Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 10:50:41 +0000 Message-ID: <52AEDB01.7030008@xen.org> References: Reply-To: lars.kurth@xen.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" 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 1VsVl7-0004KJ-1h for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Mon, 16 Dec 2013 10:50:45 +0000 Received: by mail-ee0-f44.google.com with SMTP id b57so2130028eek.17 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2013 02:50:43 -0800 (PST) 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: George Dunlap , xen-devel , Russell Pavlicek List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 05/12/2013 16:54, 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. > Lars / Russ, > > We should be able to cut an RC0 sometime next week. Do you want to > plan a test day for 16 December, and then maybe another one for 6 > January? The RC0 has not happened last week. I guess we are a little late for a test day. Also, I will be struggling organizing a Test Day due to holidays and a planned trip to China. Unless Russ can pick it up, and we do have a schedule for test days after RC0, which we can stick to. Also, we need volunteers to prepare decent test instructions. Lars