From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: Xen 4.4 development update: RC0 imminent Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 16:39:27 +0000 Message-ID: <52A0AC3F.2010605@eu.citrix.com> References: <20131205163425.GA27631@zion.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta3.messagelabs.com ([195.245.230.39]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Vobxj-00023S-Ma for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2013 16:39:39 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20131205163425.GA27631@zion.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Wei Liu Cc: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLQ==?= =?UTF-8?B?Y29kZXIvcGhjb2RlcicgU2VyYmluZW5rbw==?= , Fabio Fantoni , David Vrabel , xen-devel , =?UTF-8?B?Um9nZXIgUGF1IE1v?= =?UTF-8?B?bm7DqQ==?= List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 12/05/2013 04:34 PM, Wei Liu wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 04:29:08PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:09 PM, George Dunlap >> wrote: >>> This information will be mirrored on the Xen 4.4 Roadmap wiki page: >>> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Roadmap/4.4 >>> >>> We're nearly to the completion of the code freeze, scheduled for >>> tomorrow. After the code freeze, only bug fixes and features marked >>> as "blockers" will be considered. At the moment, the only feature >>> considered a blocker is experimental PVH dom0 support. >>> >>> In early RCs, most bug fixes will be accepted; but in later RCs, even >>> bug fixes may be rejected if they risk breaking more important >>> functionality than they fix. >>> >>> I don't think at this point every bug fix needs a blessing from me; >>> committers, if there are fixes which are obviously low-risk, just go >>> ahead and check them in. >>> >>> I was thinking that for some of our new features, it would be good to >>> have a blog post describing the feature and how to test it. This >>> would both raise awareness of the feature, and hopefully get it more >>> testing before the release. We could choose a couple to focus on for >>> each test day. >> Features which might be worth highlighting for testing in blogs: >> >> * Non-udev scripts for driver domains (non-Linux driver domains) >> - Roger Pau Monne >> >> * PHV domU (experimental only) >> >> * Improved Spice support on libxl >> - Fabio Fantoni >> >> * Event channel scalability >> - David Vrabel >> >> * pvgrub2 checked into grub upstream (external) >> - Vladmir Servinenko >> >> * Guest EFI booting (tianocore) >> - Wei Liu >> > A bunch of critical patches are neither applied upstream nor in our tree > (though they are already acked / reviewed by maintainers), so I don't > think we want to advertise it as "working"... OK -- would the Xen side of these be something that could come in as "bug fixes", or should I take this off the list of 4.4 features? -George