From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: Release, RC5, and branching Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:34:14 +0000 Message-ID: <53078006.60900@eu.citrix.com> References: <53075C9E.9070608@eu.citrix.com> <21255.31702.826721.362385@mariner.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <21255.31702.826721.362385@mariner.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: Ian Jackson Cc: Stefano Stabellini , Ian Campbell , Jan Beulich , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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