Which trees are supported (Was: Re: [qemu-upstream-4.2-testing test] 77180: regressions - FAIL)

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>]

>>> On 07.01.16 at 12:22, <ian.campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> So this arose because Stefano was unaware that 4.2 was no longer supported.
> Neither am I ever confident about where the cut-off lie, e.g. I always have
> to ask if I am doing backports for a security issue.
> 
> We should add rows to http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Release_Features right
> under Initial Release giving first the date until which that tree is
> supported with backports and second the date until which security support
> will exist. We might also want to add a third "status" row. e.g.
> "Supported", "Security Support only", "EOL" (we'll deal with extended
> support by a third party when that next arises).
> 
> I'm happy to make the edits, however I don't know what dates I would write 
> here. Taking it to be 18 months of Support and a further 18 months of
> security support I would get:
> 
>  			Xen 4.0 	Xen 4.1 	Xen 4.2 	Xen 4.3 	Xen 4.4 	Xen 4.5 	Xen 4.6
> Initial Release 	7 April 2010 	25 March 2011 	17 Sept 2012 	9 July 2013 	10 March 
> 2014 	15 Jan 2015 	13 Oct 2015 
> Supported until		EOL - ???	EOL - ???	EOL - ???	EOL - Jan 2015	EOL - Sept 2015	July 
> 2016	April 2017
> Security support til	EOL - ???	EOL - ???	EOL - ???	July 2016	March 2016	Jan 
> 2017	Oct 2018

4.4 is going to have normal support ended with the 4.4.4 release only;
4.4.3 got released a little too early from that perspective.

> (maybe those EOLs - ??? could be whatever the respective dates were, I
> didn't try and backtrack to try and find out if reality matched the plan)

At least for the older ones it's probably not worth to reconstruct. 4.2 had
its security support ended in Sept 2015.

Jan