From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: Xen 4.5 Development Update (GA slip by a week) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 10:11:33 -0500 Message-ID: <20150106151133.GD7773@l.oracle.com> References: <20150105200832.49EFC6A059F@l.oracle.com> <21675.62431.917500.191502@mariner.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta14.messagelabs.com ([193.109.254.103]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8VnJ-0005jd-Gq for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:11:41 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <21675.62431.917500.191502@mariner.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: Ian Jackson Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 02:40:31PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > (CC list replaced by just the list.) > > konrad.wilk@oracle.com writes ("Xen 4.5 Development Update (GA slip by a week)"): > > <==== WE ARE HERE ===> > > Release Date: Jan 14th. > > There are two remaining dates left unspecified in your mail: > > * When do we branch for 4.5 ? I think we should do this right away > so that we can set up osstest to have a working push gate for 4.5 > by the time of the release. I concur. Would you be OK doing that? > > This will work best with coordination with all committers to avoid > stuff appearing on staging after staging-4.5 is created. Um, not following you. I think we want people to put patches in staging, just not 4.5 material? > > The implication of branching of course is that 4.6-unstable becomes > open for business. Right. > > * What is the last commit deadline for 4.5 ? > > We need time to wait for a test push, discover a possible problem, > and perhaps revert. A week would be best, but maybe a bit less How long do those 'test push' take? > would be OK. > > Ian.