Re: Xen 4.6 Development Update (five months reminder, 5 WEEKS TO FREEZE)

[Yang Hongyang <yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com>]

On 06/05/2015 09:53 PM, wei.liu2@citrix.com wrote:
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>
> Hi all
>
> We are now four months into 4.6 development window. This is an email to keep
> track of all the patch series I gathered. It is by no means complete and / or
> acurate. Feel free to reply this email with new projects or correct my
> misunderstanding.
>
> = Timeline =
>
> We are planning on a 9-month release cycle, but we could also release a bit
> earlier if everything goes well (no blocker, no critical bug).
>
> * Development start: 6 Jan 2015
> <=== We are here ===>
> * Feature Freeze: 10 Jul 2015
> * RCs: TBD
> * Release Date: 9 Oct 2015 (could release earlier)
>
> The RCs and release will of course depend on stability and bugs, and
> will therefore be fairly unpredictable.
>
> Bug-fixes, if Acked-by by maintainer, can go anytime before the First
> RC. Later on we will need to figure out the risk of regression/reward
> to eliminate the possiblity of a bug introducing another bug.
>
> = Prognosis =
>
> The states are: none -> fair -> ok -> good -> done
>
> none - nothing yet
> fair - still working on it, patches are prototypes or RFC
> ok   - patches posted, acting on review
> good - some last minute pieces
> done - all done, might have bugs
[...]
>
> == Xen toolstack ==
>
> *  Split libxc into multiple libraries (none)
>    -  Ian Campbell
>
> *  Remus using migration-v2 (good)
>     RFC posted - depends on v6 of 'New Migration'
>    -  Yang Hongyang

Done.

>
> *  Migration v2 (libxl) (none)
>    -  Andrew Cooper
>
[...]
>
> *  COarse-grain LOck-stepping Virtual Machines in Xen (fair)
>     RFC v5 posted
>    -  Wen Congyang
>    -  Gui Jianfeng
>    -  Yang Hongyang
>    -  Dong, Eddie

This should be ok:
[PATCH v6 COLO 00/15] COarse-grain LOck-stepping Virtual Machines for Non-stop 
Service


>
> *  tmem migrationv2 patches. (none)
>    -  Bob Liu & Andrew Cooper & David Vrabel
>
> *  snapshot API extension (checkpointing disk) (fair)
>     v10
>    -  Chunyan Liu
>
...

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Thanks,
Yang.