From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@gmail.com>,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
DougGoldstein <cardoe@cardoe.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 10:03:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160615090327.GW28116@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5761222102000078000F51B6@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>
On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 01:38:41AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 14.06.16 at 19:57, <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> > We still have an unanswered question about the forthcoming 4.6.x
> > stable release. To summarise:
> >
> > After tagging qemu-xen-4.6.2, a build issue was discovered: qemu-xen
> > wanted a new patch to fix the build on recent Ubuntu. We decided to
> > include this patch in the forthcoming stable point release of Xen 4.6.
> > So we will need to retag qemu-xen as part of the release process.
> >
> > In my view the correct thing to do in this situation is to skip the
> > version number. This is also, I think, quite conventional in other
> > projects, if new release-critical changes are discovered during the
> > release preparation.
> >
> > I think it would be quite wrong to "release 4.6.2 with qemu-xen
> > c5fbb56ac828". Indeed, I think it is now impossible to do a correct
> > release of 4.6.2 containing qemu-xen c5fbb56ac828, because making a
> > release of Xen (including a stable point release) involves making a
> > corresponding tag in the qemu trees.
> >
> > Those corresponding tags are not just a technical link to Config.mk,
> > used by build automation. They also have an independent existence.
> > They are PGP signed. They can be verified outside the context of
> > xen.git's Config.mk. They are looked at by humans. git-describe uses
> > them. Xen-specific automation might pick them up, knowing our tag
> > naming conventions.
> >
> > We should therefore discard the version number 4.6.2 and proceed with
> > the forthcoming point release as 4.6.3. Integers are plentiful and it
> > does not matter if we waste one, particularly in the point release
> > number. We can mention briefly somewhere (release notes maybe) that
> > we skipped 4.6.2 because we discovered a patch we wanted to include,
> > while we were in the process of preparing the release.
> >
> > We have spoken about this informally and it seems that Jan, the
> > primary stable tree maintainer, does not agree (or at least, has not
> > yet been convinced).
> >
> > This may seem like a bikeshed issue to some. But, I'm afraid that I
> > am very reluctant to do as Jan proposes, and proceed with a 4.6.2
> > release referring to a qemu tag such as qemu-xen-4.6.2.1 or 4.6.2b or
> > something. Before doing that I would feel the need to escalate this
> > question to the Xen Project Committers (CC'd).
> >
> > And, we ought not to let this issue delay the actual point release and
> > it is close to being on the critical path. A decision is needed.
>
> As said on IRC this morning, while I continue to by unconvinced of the
> arguments, being the only one wanting to stick with 4.6.2 I'm not going
> to argue any further on this - be it 4.6.3 then. The only thing I would
> really like to ask is that this time (as should have happened in the first
> place), before tagging respective trees, everyone please make sure
> everything intended to be in the tree they're responsible for indeed is
> there. I really want to be able to rely on everybody having their trees
> (or parts thereof) under control.
>
> (I don't, btw, think that mini-os strictly needs re-tagging. We've
> shipped 4.6.1 without a new tag too, since there were no changes.
> But of course if a new tag is going to be made, please make sure
> you let me know of its existence, so my final Config.mk adjustment
> can be done appropriately.)
>
I would like to tag 4.6.3 to avoid causing confusion.
Let me know when the decision about version number is final.
Wei.
> Thanks, Jan
>
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2016-06-14 17:57 ` Next 4.6.x stable release, numbering, qemu-tag Ian Jackson
2016-06-14 19:27 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-06-15 8:57 ` George Dunlap
2016-06-15 9:51 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-15 7:38 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-15 9:03 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-06-15 9:56 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-15 10:21 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-15 9:35 ` George Dunlap
2016-06-15 10:04 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-15 10:13 ` George Dunlap
2016-06-15 10:25 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-15 10:30 ` George Dunlap
2016-06-15 10:46 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-15 11:46 ` George Dunlap
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