Re: New Release Process

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

Ian Pratt wrote:

>My current inclination is to call a 3.0.1 release Friday/Saturday and
>sweep the tree into -testing. Monday morning we'd then incorporate hvm
>and the 2.6.15 tree and work flat out to get that fully tested and
>stabilized ASAP, so SuSE can pick it up for SLES10.
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Yeah, this is a good idea.  Many of us were hoping at the Summit that 
3.0.1 would be released ASAP.

>What do other developers feel about trying to help SuSE out like this?
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In my mind, switching to a higher kernel version is always a good thing 
especially since it gets us closer to being able to start dropping 
patches for upstream merge.

>No doubt we might have to end up doing something similar for RH come the
>RHEL5 freeze date. My feeling is that its in the xen community's
>interest to have the best possible vendor releases, as the users always
>end up coming to our mailing lists to complain :) 
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Frequently releases are a very good thing.  If we have frequent 
releases, and stay close to the upstream kernel, we shouldn't have to 
worry much about the distro releases.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>What do you think? Should we stick with 2.6.15 or go to 2.6.16-rc1 ?
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>Any reason not to call 3.0.1 now? There are a load of bug fixes and
>improvements over 3.0.0.
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>Ian
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