From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jan Beulich" Subject: Re: Which trees are supported (Was: Re: [qemu-upstream-4.2-testing test] 77180: regressions - FAIL) Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 06:12:00 -0700 Message-ID: <568E723002000078000C463D@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> References: <1452160573.21055.147.camel@citrix.com> <1452165737.21055.197.camel@citrix.com> <568E5DF902000078000C4542@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> <1452168058.21055.203.camel@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1452168058.21055.203.camel@citrix.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell , WeiLiu , IanJackson , Stefano Stabellini Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Lars Kurth List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org >>> On 07.01.16 at 13:00, wrote: > On Thu, 2016-01-07 at 04:45 -0700, Jan Beulich wrote: >> > > > On 07.01.16 at 12:22, 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. > > Meaning it will be earlier later than September 2015. > > 4.4.3 was released in August which was too soon. > > I think it is right to err on the side of stopping later than we said. > > Did we stop adding backports to staging-4.4 in September, i.e. is 4.4.4 > going to be fixes from August-September + security issues until the release > date? No, there was active backporting until December (and I expect to at least put in Andrew's XSA-156 fixup before 4.4.4 goes out, which - due to the osstest issues - is going to take a little more time anyway). Jan