Re: Commit moratorium for branching 4.7

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 02:55:39PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Jackson writes ("Commit moratorium for branching 4.7"):
> > At Wei's request, I am starting to branch the tree, so that
> > xen-unstable can diverge from the *-4.7 preparation branches.
> > 
> > Please don't commit anything until I'm done, which will be later
> > today.
> 
> I have now finished this branching process.  Please let me know of any
> anomalies.  I have applied the patch below to xen.git#staging, to
> (from a technical point of view) open Xen 4.8.
> 
> I'm not sure we have made a community decision about the terms under
> which patches may be committed to the newly-open 4.8 (and who is
> responsible for porting bug fixes from 4.7 to 4.8 or vice versa).
> Perhaps I missed the email.  I don't think the stable tree maintainers
> want to take over 4.7 yet.  So until that is settled, probably nothing
> substantial should be committed to 4.8.
> 

I forgot to send an email about this, sorry.

From the point on up to the actual release, all committers are
responsible for both 4.7 and -unstable branch. Bug fixes can be first
committed -unstable (no RM ack needed) and then cherry-pick (with RM
ack) to 4.7 branch.

I don't expect there to be large number of patches though.

Wei.

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