Re: RFC: Survey on release cycle

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 14:08 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 01:21:11PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > Aside: I'm a bit confused regarding whether our "stable release scheme" is
> > defined in terms of number of concurrently supported releases or in terms
> > of an absolute time. 
> > http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Maintenance_Releases definitely
> > says it is concurrent release based, but your proposal above suggests
> > otherwise. Is the wiki wrong?
> > 
> 
> Sorry about the confusion. I picked the time-based interpretation
> because that's why I slightly preferred (again, note that all details
> are merely my preferences). There is room for discussion of course.
> Whether the stable releases based on absolute time or number of
> concurrent releases, I won't argue for one over another.

My confusion wasn't down to arguing for/against one or the other, just that
the options presented did not make it clear which one they were using,
which meant their use of the word "current" was potentially confusing.

Ian.