Re: Daily Xen Builds

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

Nicholas Lee wrote:

>On 10/11/05, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
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>>Is it perhaps wise, nearing 3.0, that we adopt a policy of running the
>>various test suites on code before it gets pushed to the public tree?
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Ian's obviously the best person to answer this but I'll give it a go.

>Can we expect there to be a some sort of freeze on 3.0 soon?
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We are sort of already in a testing freeze.  There's a lot of activity 
in the tree because some broken things are being reworked.  2.0 => 3.0 
was a pretty significant change in many parts of Xen.

A lot changes being made now have associated bugzilla reports.  This 
will likely become the more common case as we move forward.

>As a user its hard to tell at the moment if new features are still
>being developed and added to 3.0 or we are chasing bugs.
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Yeah, there's a lot of churn in the tree.  Most of it is chasing bugs.

>The idea that a freeze and focus for release is occurring soon, would
>make the time I'm spending testing Xen 3.0 on a machine I want to put
>into production at some point is worth while.
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>I'm working under the assumption that 3.0 has been projected to be
>release soon so its on a spiral to being stable. Otherwise, maybe I'll
>just go back 2.0 and wait 6 months.
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This is Open Source.  Soon is when-it's-ready.  6 months is probably a 
safe bet.  I would hold your breath to see a release in the next 1-2 
months though.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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