Re: Xen 4.5 Development Update (GA slip by a week)

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 03:11:21PM +0000, Lars Kurth wrote:
> Hi all (and a Happy New Year),
> 
> besides the actual release and the remaining code issues there are a few other items that typically need to be done. I am listing these below. Some have owners, others don't. If you are on the CC list, please have a look at the unowned pages and see whether you can help.
> 
> Once all the outstanding changes have made it into master, please let me know such that I can re-run the stats. If not, people may not be credited for their contribution.
> 
> = (Owned) Documentation - needs checking =
> 
> * Lars: http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_4.5_Feature_List
> **  it is possible that a feature you developed was missed or wrongly described.  Feel free to add to the page or update it.
> 
> * Lars: http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Release_Features
> ** The Host Limits need to be checked. I believe the limits for ARM increased. Not sure about x98
> 
> = (Unowned) Documentation =
> These will need to be checked by someone who knows the relevant functionality. Please reply to this section.
> 
> * http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Linux_PVH - not sure whether this page correct. Someone in the know please have a look and ACK or point out issues
> * http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_4.5_Release_Notes - I can populate some of it. Will need help for the known issues section though
> * http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_with_Virtualization_Extensions/OdroidXU - missing
> 
> = (Owned) Documentation =
> * Lars: http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_4.5_Acknowledgements - will populate after I ran the stats script after the last commit
> * Lars: http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_4.5_Man_Pages - done, but links are broken until the branch is made
> 
> = (Owned) Making the Release = 
> Typically done by Ian Jackson and me.
> 
> See http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Checklist/XenHypervisorRelease
> 
> = (Owned) Press release / Blog post =
> Done by Sarah Conway and me
> Status: have a draft press release and blog post (see http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/publicity/2015-01/msg00001.html) - feel free to check your feature description
> 
> Open Issue: Konrad to check whether he is allowed to publish the blog post under his name. If not we can create a Release Manager account to publish it under.

No problem with me doing the blogs.
> 
> Cheers
> Lars
> 
> On 5 Jan 2015, at 20:08, konrad.wilk@oracle.com wrote:
> 
> > Xen 4.5-rc4 was out on Monday (Dec 15th). The GA
> > General Release is on Jan 7th^H^H^14th!
> > 
> > There are some outstanding patches on which we need to figure
> > out whether we will commit them in or not.
> > 
> > When we commit a patch in, the OSSTest takes a day or so to push it to 'master'
> > - and if it fails during that time patches that are later in the sequence are
> > not applied. Hence if everything works out great - we get the patches
> > to show up next day - however if something breaks - we are stalled.
> > 
> > Ian(s) has pointed to me that the OSSTest is sometimes on the fritz and that it
> > might take more than one day to push patches through which means we won't
> > make it by Wednesday.
> > 
> > As such, moving it the release by a week to give us ample room to get through
> > those changes.
> > 
> > These are the patches that need to be investigated whether they should
> > go in or not:
> > 
> > VT-d: don't crash when PTE bits 52 and up are non-zero
> > VT-d: extend XSA-59 workaround to XeonE5 v3 (Haswell)
> > VT-d: make XSA-59 workaround fully cover XeonE5/E7 v2
> > x86/VPMU: Clear last_vcpu when destroying VPMU
> > tools/hotplug: add wrapper to start xenstored
> > tools/hotplug: remove EnvironmentFile from xen-qemu-dom0-disk-backend.service
> > tools/hotplug: use XENCONSOLED_TRACE in xenconsoled.service
> > tools/hotplug: use xencommons as EnvironmentFile in xenconsoled.service
> > tools/hotplug: xendomains.service depends on network
> > tools/hotplug: remove XENSTORED_ROOTDIR from xenstored.service
> > tools/hotplug: remove SELinux options from var-lib-xenstored.mount
> > tools/libxl: Use of init()/dispose() to avoid leaking libxl_dominfo.ss
> > xen: arm: correct off-by-one error in consider_module
> > 
> > 
> > = Timeline =
> > 
> > Xen 4.5 is a 10 month release. The dates are:
> > 
> > * Feature Freeze: 24th September 2014
> > * First RC: 24th October [Friday!]
> > * RC2: Nov 11th
> > * RC2 Test-day: Nov 13th
> > * RC3: Dec 3rd.
> > * RC3 Test-day: Dec 4th
> > * RC4: Dec 15th
> > * RC4 Test-day: Dec 17th
> > 
> > <==== WE ARE HERE ===>
> > 
> > Release Date: Jan 14th.
> > 
> > 
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