From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: 3.0-testing Status Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:19:27 -0500 Message-ID: <4328235F.3060605@us.ibm.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ian Pratt Cc: xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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? >> >> > >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). > > 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. > > 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. > >Ian > > >