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

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 04:39:27PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> On 12/05/2013 04:34 PM, Wei Liu wrote:
> >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"...
> 
> OK -- would the Xen side of these be something that could come in as
> "bug fixes", or should I take this off the list of 4.4 features?
>

I pinged maintainer this morning, let's see his response later. He's in
GMT -8 timezone.

If we cannot get it merged within next week I would rather take it off
our list.

Wei.

>  -George

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