Re: Xen 4.12 release planning

[Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>]

On 25/07/18 13:51, Lars Kurth wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 25 Jul 2018, at 12:45, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 25/07/18 13:39, Lars Kurth wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 25 Jul 2018, at 12:24, George Dunlap <dunlapg@umich.edu
>>>> <mailto:dunlapg@umich.edu>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 10:22 AM, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com
>>>> <mailto:jgross@suse.com>> wrote:
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> We can rule out several variants with release dates just before or in a
>>>>> holiday season:
>>>>>
>>>>> Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
>>>>> Xx.XXXXX...xxxx...........xxXXXXx..............X      holidays
>>>>> ffFFFFFFR.......ffFFFFFFR.......ffFFFFFFR.......
>>>>> .ffFFFFFFR.......ffFFFFFFR.......ffFFFFFFR......
>>>>>
>>>>> Best fit seems to be releasing in first half of March/July/November. The
>>>>> main clash seems to be Chinese new year in the freeze period, but
>>>>> avoiding that would mean we'd have to either move into Christmas or
>>>>> Eastern, or to use a schedule with varying periods.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please remember that Chinese new year is only 2 weeks long (at varying
>>>>> dates) so only 2 weeks of the freeze period are hit. Next year the
>>>>> Chinese new year will be at February 5th.
>>>>>
>>>>> For my 4.12 plan I've added some extra weeks between last posting date
>>>>> and release date to accommodate for the holiday seasons, resulting in
>>>>> my suggestion.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the detailed analysis Juregen.  This seems good to me.
>>>>
>>>> -George
>>>
>>> This looks good to me also. To address Julien's concerns, we could also
>>> consider an earlier Last posting date/Hard code freeze date for Arm
>>> related code to work around Julien's holiday plans. I think this would
>>> be entirely OK and set expectations of contributors accordingly. But
>>> maybe this is not necessary if Julien and Stefano can agree a work split
>>> somehow. 
>>>
>>> Alternatively we could communicate absences of key reviewers say in
>>> November to set expectations of contributors for the final stretch of
>>> the release cycle. In other words, if a key reviewer is away, then
>>> contributors will need to get series into good shape before their
>>> reviewers go on vacation. 
>>
>> I like that idea. Lets expand it to key persons (i.e. release manager,
>> release technician, community manager, key reviewers).
> 
> We should probably add this to the Release manager TODO list, such that we don't forget when the time comes. The same principle could apply to other holiday periods as well.

I would rather tie that to the point in the release process. There might
be planned vacations at other times, too.

I'll send a patch for the release management doc.


Juergen

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