Re: Next 4.6.x stable release, numbering, qemu-tag

From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
To: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	LarsKurth <lars.kurth.xen@gmail.com>,
	DougGoldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>,
	Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	committers@xenproject.org,
	Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: Next 4.6.x stable release, numbering, qemu-tag
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 04:46:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57614E2D02000078000F5447@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57612E31.5030906@citrix.com>

>>> On 15.06.16 at 12:30, <george.dunlap@citrix.com> wrote:
> On 15/06/16 11:25, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 15.06.16 at 12:13, <george.dunlap@citrix.com> wrote:
>>> On 15/06/16 11:04, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>>> On 15.06.16 at 11:35, <george.dunlap@citrix.com> wrote:
>>>>> The version of qemu-xen that was tagged with 4.6 had been through
>>>>> several rounds of RCs, months of osstesting, and even through a slew of
>>>>> builds on Travis (which does build Ubuntu, but apparently just not the
>>>>> bleeding-edge version).  I only happened to notice it as I was trying to
>>>>> get patches for raisin for 4.7.
>>>>
>>>> The mere fact that 4.6.0 and 4.6.1 exhibited the same issue (and,
>>>> from what you're saying now, which is different from what I've
>>>> understood before, already did when they were cut) would make
>>>> dealing with the issue a non-release-critical one for my taste. IOW,
>>>> if a new version of Ubuntu showed up after 4.6.1, then fixing the
>>>> issue in 4.6.2 (now 4.6.3) would indeed be rather desirable. If,
>>>> however, that release was around already at the time 4.6.1 got
>>>> cut, then I don't see why this is so urgent a problem to address.
>>>
>>> And this is exactly what happened -- the version of Ubuntu which breaks
>>> is 16.04, which (as the name indicates) came out in April 2016 -- two
>>> months after 4.6.1. :-)
>> 
>> In which case I don't really follow what you tried to point out with
>> the first sentence of your earlier reply still visible above.
> 
> I should have said, "tagged 4.6.2".  My point was, there already was a
> lot of testing done for 4.6.2; the tag was done with all the care that
> can be reasonably expected.

Okay, maybe I'm confused then. I had thought all of this was a result
of the thread titled "compilation fail, xen staging-4.6, vnc.c,
qemu-tradintional issues under ubuntu 16.04", which aiui has its origin
in March.

Jan

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