From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: Release, RC5, and branching Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:21:39 +0000 Message-ID: <530760F3.9050000@eu.citrix.com> References: <53075C9E.9070608@eu.citrix.com> <53076E4D020000780011E565@nat28.tlf.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <53076E4D020000780011E565@nat28.tlf.novell.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: Jan Beulich Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" , Ian Jackson , IanCampbell , Stefano Stabellini List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 02/21/2014 02:18 PM, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> On 21.02.14 at 15:03, George Dunlap wrote: >> So it's now been several days, and no one has reported any major issues >> with RC4. There are a handful of ARM-related fixes in the tree. >> >> I propose that we tag RC5 today, and make that the official release >> (whenever we're ready to with the Linux Foundation PR process). >> >> After tagging RC5 this afternoon, I don't see much reason not to branch >> -- I don't think at this point we're going to get much more testing in. >> >> Thoughts? > Fine with me, albeit it seems a bit pointless to me to have another > RC, in particular if we expect this to become the release. Isn't that what RC stands for -- release candidate? :-) -George