Re: Which trees are supported (Was: Re: [qemu-upstream-4.2-testing test] 77180: regressions - FAIL)

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Thu, 2016-01-07 at 04:45 -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > On 07.01.16 at 12:22, <ian.campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> > So this arose because Stefano was unaware that 4.2 was no longer
> > supported.
> > Neither am I ever confident about where the cut-off lie, e.g. I always
> > have
> > to ask if I am doing backports for a security issue.
> > 
> > We should add rows to http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Release_Features
> > right
> > under Initial Release giving first the date until which that tree is
> > supported with backports and second the date until which security
> > support
> > will exist. We might also want to add a third "status" row. e.g.
> > "Supported", "Security Support only", "EOL" (we'll deal with extended
> > support by a third party when that next arises).
> > 
> > I'm happy to make the edits, however I don't know what dates I would
> > write 
> > here. Taking it to be 18 months of Support and a further 18 months of
> > security support I would get:
> > 
> >  			Xen 4.0 	Xen 4.1 	Xen 4.2 	Xen 4.3 	Xen 4.4 	Xen 4.5 	Xen 4.6
> > Initial Release 	7 April 2010 	25 March 2011 	17 Sept 2012 	9 July 2013 	10 March 
> > 2014 	15 Jan 2015 	13 Oct 2015 
> > Supported until		EOL - ???	EOL - ???	EOL - ???	EOL - Jan 2015	EOL - Sept 2015	July 
> > 2016	April 2017
> > Security support til	EOL - ???	EOL - ???	EOL - ???	July 2016	March 2016	Jan 
> > 2017	Oct 2018
> 
> 4.4 is going to have normal support ended with the 4.4.4 release only;
> 4.4.3 got released a little too early from that perspective.

Meaning it will be earlier later than September 2015.

4.4.3 was released in August which was too soon.

I think it is right to err on the side of stopping later than we said.

Did we stop adding backports to staging-4.4 in September, i.e. is 4.4.4
going to be fixes from August-September + security issues until the release
date?

> 
> > (maybe those EOLs - ??? could be whatever the respective dates were, I
> > didn't try and backtrack to try and find out if reality matched the
> > plan)
> 
> At least for the older ones it's probably not worth to reconstruct. 4.2
> had
> its security support ended in Sept 2015.

Thanks.

> 
> Jan
> 
> 
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