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 10:16:53 -0500 Message-ID: <20150106151653.GF7773@l.oracle.com> References: <20150105200832.49EFC6A059F@l.oracle.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 1Y8VsX-0006Rg-Ou for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:17:05 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Lars Kurth Cc: artem Mygaiev , Steve.VanderLeest@dornerworks.com, mengxu@cis.upenn.edu, m.a.young@durham.ac.uk, chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com, zhigang.x.wang@oracle.com, Parth Dixit , Boris Ostrovsky , manishjaggi.oss@gmail.com, Paul.Skentzos@dornerworks.com, Vijay Kilari , rcojocaru@bitdefender.com, guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com, Daniel Kiper , Sarah Conway , Joshua Whitehead , Arianna Avanzini , yang.z.zhang@intel.com, xen-devel , Serge Broslavsky , feng.wu@intel.com, yjhyun.yoo@samsung.com, olaf@aepfle.de, Suriyan Ramasami , ian.campbell@citrix.com, wency@cn.fujitsu.com, Stefano List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Xen-devel mailing list > > Xen-devel@lists.xen.org > > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel >