From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cooper Subject: Re: which branch should I tracking, stable or staging? Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 00:29:45 +0100 Message-ID: <535EE469.4030007@citrix.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: "Dennis Lan (dlan)" , xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 28/04/2014 22:37, Dennis Lan (dlan) wrote: > HI ALL: > I'm usually tracking *stable* branch (eg. remotes/origin/stable-4.3) > for security bugs and critical fixes. but I noticed that a few > patches/fixes for branch-4.4 are not going into stable > branch(remotes/origin/stable-4.4), including XSA-93,94(most of them > for arm ARCH). > So my question: any reason why those commits doesn't merge into > stable branch? or should I tracking staging branch instead? because > those commits in staging branch will eventually goes into stable > branch, or will any of these commits may get reverted by chance? > > Lan If you notice, XSAs 93 and 94 are in staging-4.4 pending successful pass of the OSS test to be merged. OSS test is currently undergoing some difficulties which is why they have not yet been merged. As far as stable branches go, bugfixes do gradually happen as and when the maintainers choose, although there is usually a collection period or two before dot-releases where suggestions are requested. ~Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xen.org > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel