Building Xen Test Days into the conclusion of the Xen 4.3 release cycle

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xen.org>]

Hi everybody,

I wanted to follow up on George's e-mail (Xen 4.3 development update 
CODE FREEZE at 
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-04/msg02142.html). One 
way we can facilitate the goal of

  1. Have a bug-free 4.3 release

... is to build in some Test Days into the coming weeks. This worked 
well for Xen 4.2 RC2 as well as XCP 1.6. What we do need though is a 
good set of test instructions for Xen 4.3 : examples for last time round 
were
- http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_4.2_RC2_test_instructions
- http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XCP_1.6_test_instructions
We have a document day coming up next Monday, which would be an ideal 
day to put together Xen 4.3 RC test intrstructions. I remember we got a 
lot of test coverage for 4.2 RC2 as well as XCP 1.6.

Having a predictable schedule around RC's would also help. It appears to 
me that maybe one test day every other week starting from the first RC 
(planned for May 6th would work) ... we could do the test day 1-2 days 
after the planned RC's to provide for a buffer should an RC slip.

That would give us dates for Xen Test Days for May 8, May 22 (not 
clashing with Hackathon), June 5 (with RC's planned 2 days before).

Views? Should I start announcing the dates and promote the Test Days? If 
so, I need some commitment on getting good Test instructions as well as 
a good sense that RC's are possible for these dates. If so, I would like 
to announce these by the end of this week.

Regards
Lars