Re: 3.0-testing Status

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Ian Pratt wrote:

>>I was curious if there's an estimation on when 3.0-testing is 
>>going to be declared?  Is there a list of things that are 
>>outstanding before it will happen?
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>Renaming the -unstable tree would be a fairly pointless exercise so we
>haven't done so. We've been operating in 'testing' mode for some time,
>working our way through the issues that are reported (and the ones that
>our extensive regression test infrastructure 'XenRT' picks up).
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Ah, excellent, so there will be no 3.0-testing fork?  That's good to 
know.  It had seemed like we had been operating in testing mode :-)

>Many of the oustanding issues are to do with the wide variety of
>hardware platforms xen is run on. To this end Dan/Chris/Tim have worked
>over the summer to create an automated 'test CD'. The CD is by no means
>as extensive as XenRT, but is targeted specifically to find h/w platform
>issues (does it boot, does network work, video, disks etc). We'll
>officially release the CD as soon as there are no platform-related
>issues on any of the machines we have access to (which is a fair range).
>We're quite close to that. 
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Looking forward to seeing the CD.

Thanks Ian,

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>As regards when we release 3.0.0, I'd expect to see solid rows of green
>'pass' boxes on XenRT, and a set of control tools that work robustly. 
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>Ian
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