From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dario Faggioli Subject: Re: RFC: Survey on release cycle Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 12:41:43 +0200 Message-ID: <1444819303.3009.59.camel@citrix.com> References: <20151012173222.GE2421@zion.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============7702797706381658808==" Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta3.messagelabs.com ([195.245.230.39]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmJVL-0006Uu-IP for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 10:41:55 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20151012173222.GE2421@zion.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Wei Liu , Xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org --===============7702797706381658808== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-CI0ctkf2MTkzdLBXawe4" --=-CI0ctkf2MTkzdLBXawe4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2015-10-12 at 18:32 +0100, Wei Liu wrote: > Hi all >=20 > Please express your preference with -2 (strongly argue against), -1 > (not happy but not against), +1 (happy but won't argue for) and +2 > (happy and argue for). >=20 > # 6 months release cycle + current stable release scheme >=20 > The same stable release scheme applies (18 months full support + 18 > months security fixes). Encourage more people to step up to share the > maintenance burden if necessary. Automate part of the workflow to > maintain stable releases. Write down guideline for maintainers. >=20 +1 I especially like the 6 months cadence with fixed dates. Keeping the current stable release scheme could be a good thing, e.g., to avoid introducing too many changes at the same time (although, I personally think we could well give the LTS model a try, as said below). > # 6 months release cycle + LTS scheme >=20 > Pick LTS release every 4 releases. Announce LTS before hand. Non-LTS > releases receive shorter support. Encourage more people to step up to > share the maintenance burden if necessary. Automate part of the > workflow to maintain stable releases and LTS releases. Write down > guideline for maintainers. >=20 > The length of support hasn't been discussed thoroughly -- but to make > LTS scheme stand out the length of support would be longer than what > we have now (18 + 18). >=20 +2 I really like the 6 months cadence with fixed dates, and, although I don't have much experience with them, I like the LTS idea, enough to think that we should give it a try, at least. > # 9 months release cycle + current stable release scheme >=20 -2 As said above, I think we should go (try) 6 Regards, Dario --=20 <> (Raistlin Majere) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK) --=-CI0ctkf2MTkzdLBXawe4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEABECAAYFAlYeMWcACgkQk4XaBE3IOsS2NgCfZqbNvu7+rRQV0LwccvUNBaPn gUcAoJQvqIJYhpxdNR0FubE8RiqFqLto =/tec -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-CI0ctkf2MTkzdLBXawe4-- --===============7702797706381658808== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel --===============7702797706381658808==--