Re: Release, RC5, and branching

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>]

On 02/21/2014 04:16 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> George Dunlap writes ("Release, RC5, and branching"):
>> 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.
> OK.  I'll do the branch after the RC5 tarball is made.
>
> Also we should do the checklist items that involve changes to the
> xen.git tree, ASAP after RC5 and branching, so that ideally we get a
> test push from the new staging-4.4 branch onto stable-4.4 before the
> release.

Yes, please do the branch.

>
> How sure are we that the qemu trees we will be releasing with are the
> ones in RC5 ?  If we're sure then we could make the release tags now.

Is there a cost to waiting for the release tags?  I don't know exactly 
how we want to arrange the timing of the release with the press 
announcement, but if it wouldn't cause too much hassle / risk of missing 
something, it might be better to wait until the day of our official 
announcement, probably a week monday.

  -George