From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: Xen 4.4 development update: RC0 imminent Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 16:29:08 +0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta3.messagelabs.com ([195.245.230.39]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Vobna-0000RD-78 for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2013 16:29:10 +0000 Received: by mail-we0-f175.google.com with SMTP id t60so1054677wes.20 for ; Thu, 05 Dec 2013 08:29:08 -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: xen-devel Cc: Wei Liu , =?ISO-8859-7?Q?Vladimir_=27=F6=2Dcoder=2Fphcoder=27_Serbinenko?= , Fabio Fantoni , David Vrabel , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=E9?= List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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. Features which might be worth highlighting for testing in blogs: * Non-udev scripts for driver domains (non-Linux driver domains) - Roger Pau Monne * PHV domU (experimental only) * Improved Spice support on libxl - Fabio Fantoni * Event channel scalability - David Vrabel * pvgrub2 checked into grub upstream (external) - Vladmir Servinenko * Guest EFI booting (tianocore) - Wei Liu * kexec -- is this worth testing? - David Vrabel * Disk: indirect descriptors (in 3.11) - ? Are people willing to step up and write a brief description of what the feature is, as well as a quick guide for how to test it? -George