From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: Xen 4.4 development update Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:49:22 +0100 Message-ID: <52133BA2.9000709@eu.citrix.com> References: <520BCDDD02000078000EBF26@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <52121914.9000502@eu.citrix.com> <521336CC02000078000ECF90@nat28.tlf.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta4.messagelabs.com ([85.158.143.247]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1VBiZU-0001bs-8G for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:49:52 +0000 In-Reply-To: <521336CC02000078000ECF90@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 List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 08/20/2013 08:28 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> On 19.08.13 at 15:09, George Dunlap wrote: >> I think as release cycles get shorter, we have to move into thinking >> more like the Linux "merge windows": you work on your feature, and when >> it's ready, you target it for a specific merge window. > > Which - as expressed before - I dislike. But I don't think I ever understood the nature of your dislike -- what is it you like about the longer release cycles, and/or dislike about the shorter ones? -George