Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.4 development update: RC0 imminent

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 04:29:08PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:09 PM, George Dunlap
> <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This information will be mirrored on the Xen 4.4 Roadmap wiki page:
> >  http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Roadmap/4.4
> >
> > We're nearly to the completion of the code freeze, scheduled for
> > tomorrow.  After the code freeze, only bug fixes and features marked
> > as "blockers" will be considered.  At the moment, the only feature
> > considered a blocker is experimental PVH dom0 support.
> >
> > In early RCs, most bug fixes will be accepted; but in later RCs, even
> > bug fixes may be rejected if they risk breaking more important
> > functionality than they fix.
> >
> > I don't think at this point every bug fix needs a blessing from me;
> > committers, if there are fixes which are obviously low-risk, just go
> > ahead and check them in.
> >
> > I was thinking that for some of our new features, it would be good to
> > have a blog post describing the feature and how to test it.  This
> > would both raise awareness of the feature, and hopefully get it more
> > testing before the release.  We could choose a couple to focus on for
> > each test day.
> 
> Features which might be worth highlighting for testing in blogs:
> 
> * Non-udev scripts for driver domains (non-Linux driver domains)
>  - Roger Pau Monne
> 
> * PHV domU (experimental only)
> 
> * Improved Spice support on libxl
>  - Fabio Fantoni
> 
> * Event channel scalability
>  - David Vrabel
> 
> * pvgrub2 checked into grub upstream (external)
>  - Vladmir Servinenko
> 
> * Guest EFI booting (tianocore)
>  - Wei Liu
> 

A bunch of critical patches are neither applied upstream nor in our tree
(though they are already acked / reviewed by maintainers), so I don't
think we want to advertise it as "working"...

Wei.

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