Release schedule for Xen 4.1

Release schedule for Xen 4.1

[Ian Jackson]

Following discussion, and a bit of slip to allow better contributions
from those who've been away for the Chinese New Year, the plan for 4.1
now looks like this.

We intend to go into code freeze at the end of the week, after which
patches even for bugfixes will be much harder to get into the tree.

We are here:

 |   Feature code freeze
 | 
 |     Bugfixes are allowed provided they are not high-risk.
 | 
 |     No new features will be committed.

This is imminent:

 |   Slushy code freeze
 |   after Friday 18 Feb
 | 
 |     Bugfixes are allowed but only if they either:
 |         - fix an important bug; or
 |         - are very trivial and low-risk.
 | 
 |     All changes to receive a formal ack from a maintainer other than
 |     the committer.
 | 
 |   Hard code freeze
 |   after Friday 25 Feb  
 | 
 |     No further patches other than for release-critical bugs.
 | 
 |     All changes to receive a formal ack from a maintainer other than
 |     the committer.
 | 
 |   Release.
 |   planned Monday 7th March
 | 
 |   In all cases, the plan is subject to modification, and to the making
 |   of freeze exceptions by the maintainers following consultation.

Ian.

Release schedule for Xen 4.1

[Ian Jackson]

As of today, xen-unstable.hg is frozen:

 |   Slushy code freeze
 | 
 |     Bugfixes are allowed but only if they either:
 |         - fix an important bug; or
 |         - are very trivial and low-risk.
 | 
 |     All changes to receive a formal ack from a maintainer other than
 |     the committer.

Coming up:

 |   Hard code freeze
 |   after Wednesday 9th March
 | 
 |     No further patches other than for release-critical bugs.
 | 
 |     All changes to receive a formal ack from a maintainer other than
 |     the committer.
 | 
 |   Release.
 |   planned Wednesday 16th March
 | 
 |   In all cases, the plan is subject to modification, and to the making
 |   of freeze exceptions by the maintainers following consultation.

Ian.

Re: Release schedule for Xen 4.1

[Shriram Rajagopalan]

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On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:54 AM, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>wrote:

> As of today, xen-unstable.hg is frozen:
>
> Does this include patches that have been acked?
Two of Remus patches that I posted dont seem to be in unstable, as yet.

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-02/msg01504.html
libxl: fix incorrect scanning of pfn array in pagebuf during migration

and
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-02/msg01495.html
blktap2: fix gap in tapdisk2 disk_type numbering

both of which were acked.

>  |   Slushy code freeze
>  |
>  |     Bugfixes are allowed but only if they either:
>  |         - fix an important bug; or
>  |         - are very trivial and low-risk.
>  |
>  |     All changes to receive a formal ack from a maintainer other than
>  |     the committer.
>
> Coming up:
>
>  |   Hard code freeze
>  |   after Wednesday 9th March
>  |
>  |     No further patches other than for release-critical bugs.
>  |
>  |     All changes to receive a formal ack from a maintainer other than
>  |     the committer.
>  |
>  |   Release.
>  |   planned Wednesday 16th March
>  |
>  |   In all cases, the plan is subject to modification, and to the making
>  |   of freeze exceptions by the maintainers following consultation.
>
> Ian.
>
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Re: Release schedule for Xen 4.1

[Ian Jackson]

Shriram Rajagopalan writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Release schedule for Xen 4.1"):
> 
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:54 AM, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com<mailto:Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>> wrote:
> Does this include patches that have been acked?
> Two of Remus patches that I posted dont seem to be in unstable, as yet.

Thanks for your message.

> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-02/msg01504.html
> libxl: fix incorrect scanning of pfn array in pagebuf during migration

I have committed this.

> and
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-02/msg01495.html
> blktap2: fix gap in tapdisk2 disk_type numbering

I think we're waiting for an ack from Daniel on this.  Given our
codefreeze I will also want to get an ack from another xen-unstable
maintainer, but I think given that this is clearly in tapdisk2 code
Daniel's ack will make that a formality.

Ian.

Re: Release schedule for Xen 4.1

[Lars Kurth]

On 02/03/2011 10:54, Ian Jackson wrote: |
>   |   Release.
>   |   planned Wednesday 16th March
>   |
>   |   In all cases, the plan is subject to modification, and to the making
>   |   of freeze exceptions by the maintainers following consultation.
>
> Ian.

Is it OK, to plan for early the week afterwards (say 23rd) for a public 
(PR) release date? That would help get everything together in time, 
would provide some contingency to allow for running the test suite over 
the weekend, etc.

Let me know
Lars

Re: Release schedule for Xen 4.1

[Keir Fraser]

On 03/03/2011 17:46, "Lars Kurth" <lars.kurth@xen.org> wrote:

> On 02/03/2011 10:54, Ian Jackson wrote: |
>>   |   Release.
>>   |   planned Wednesday 16th March
>>   |
>>   |   In all cases, the plan is subject to modification, and to the making
>>   |   of freeze exceptions by the maintainers following consultation.
>> 
>> Ian.
> 
> Is it OK, to plan for early the week afterwards (say 23rd) for a public
> (PR) release date? That would help get everything together in time,
> would provide some contingency to allow for running the test suite over
> the weekend, etc.

Yes, that would be fine.

 K.

> Let me know
> Lars
> 
> 
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Release schedule for Xen 4.1

[Ian Jackson]

As of today, xen-unstable.hg is deeply frozen:

 |   Hard code freeze
 |   after Wednesday 9th March
 | 
 |     No further patches other than for release-critical bugs.
 | 
 |     All changes to receive a formal ack from a maintainer other than
 |     the committer.

Coming up:

 |   Release.
 |   planned Wednesday 16th March
 | 
 |   In all cases, the plan is subject to modification, and to the making
 |   of freeze exceptions by the maintainers following consultation.

Ian.

RE: Release schedule for Xen 4.1

[AP Xen]

Ian,

What is the schedule for 4.0.2? Is that happening post 4.1?

Thanks,
AP

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com [mailto:xen-devel-
> bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Ian Jackson
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 9:08 AM
> To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com; Keir Fraser
> Subject: [Xen-devel] Release schedule for Xen 4.1
> 
> As of today, xen-unstable.hg is deeply frozen:
> 
>  |   Hard code freeze
>  |   after Wednesday 9th March
>  |
>  |     No further patches other than for release-critical bugs.
>  |
>  |     All changes to receive a formal ack from a maintainer other than
>  |     the committer.
> 
> Coming up:
> 
>  |   Release.
>  |   planned Wednesday 16th March
>  |
>  |   In all cases, the plan is subject to modification, and to the
> making
>  |   of freeze exceptions by the maintainers following consultation.
> 
> Ian.
> 
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> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

Re: Release schedule for Xen 4.1

[Keir Fraser]

On 09/03/2011 18:18, "AP Xen" <apxeng@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ian,
> 
> What is the schedule for 4.0.2? Is that happening post 4.1?

Should be a week or two after, yes.

 -- Keir

> Thanks,
> AP
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com [mailto:xen-devel-
>> bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Ian Jackson
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 9:08 AM
>> To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com; Keir Fraser
>> Subject: [Xen-devel] Release schedule for Xen 4.1
>> 
>> As of today, xen-unstable.hg is deeply frozen:
>> 
>>  |   Hard code freeze
>>  |   after Wednesday 9th March
>>  |
>>  |     No further patches other than for release-critical bugs.
>>  |
>>  |     All changes to receive a formal ack from a maintainer other than
>>  |     the committer.
>> 
>> Coming up:
>> 
>>  |   Release.
>>  |   planned Wednesday 16th March
>>  |
>>  |   In all cases, the plan is subject to modification, and to the
>> making
>>  |   of freeze exceptions by the maintainers following consultation.
>> 
>> Ian.
>> 
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>> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
> 

Re: Release schedule for Xen 4.1

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 05:08:18PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> As of today, xen-unstable.hg is deeply frozen:
> 

I guess xen-4.1-testing.hg is deeply frozen and not unstable? :)

-- Pasi

>  |   Hard code freeze
>  |   after Wednesday 9th March
>  | 
>  |     No further patches other than for release-critical bugs.
>  | 
>  |     All changes to receive a formal ack from a maintainer other than
>  |     the committer.
> 
> Coming up:
> 
>  |   Release.
>  |   planned Wednesday 16th March
>  | 
>  |   In all cases, the plan is subject to modification, and to the making
>  |   of freeze exceptions by the maintainers following consultation.
> 
> Ian.
> 
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> Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

Re: Release schedule for Xen 4.1

[Ian Jackson]

Pasi Kärkkäinen writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Release schedule for Xen 4.1"):
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 05:08:18PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > As of today, xen-unstable.hg is deeply frozen:
> 
> I guess xen-4.1-testing.hg is deeply frozen and not unstable? :)

Err, yes :-).

Thanks,
Ian.