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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.5 development update (July update)



On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 03:30:41PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 09.09.14 at 16:09, <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 11:30:48AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> >>> On 09.09.14 at 11:53, <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > I've trimmed the CC list to just xen-devel and committers/maintainers
> >> > (mostly from the existing cc list, so not exhaustive).
> >> > 
> >> > On Tue, 2014-09-02 at 16:45 -0400, konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> > 
> >> >> * Coding time: <=== NOW, one week left!
> >> >> 
> >> >> * Feature Freeze: 10th September 2014
> >> > 
> >> > I'm wondering if, with various maintainers and committers having been
> >> > away at various points over the summer (August in particular), we should
> >> > perhaps consider slipping the schedule a little bit.
> >> > 
> >> > I was away a fair bit myself and I still have a fairly large pile of
> >> > patches to wade through, many of which I consider important for 4.5[0].
> >> > I'm not sure how other maintainers feel about their respective areas.
> >> 
> >> A certain amount of slip would likely help me too, as would if the flood
> >> of patches (or revisions thereof) would start to decrease. I think we
> >> need to consider taking some measures to prevent everyone wanting
> >> to rush in their changes during the last couple of weeks before the
> >> freeze (irrespective of how long ago a first iteration may have been
> >> posted). I can only say that with the current situation (which I don't
> >> think was ever that bad), and with the need for me to do things other
> >> than patch reviewing, I'm not going to feel bad at all if some or all of
> >> those series miss 4.5 even if that's only because I didn't get to look at
> >> the n-th iteration thereof.
> > 
> > Hehe.
> > 
> > What is a comfortable amount of time for folks to feel that they can get
> > some code in?
> > 
> > Would a two week slippage be too little? Three weeks?
> > One month slippage scares me.
> 
> Me too; just any shift would help me.

Two week then. I will post on xen-devel the email tomorrow if nobody
screams here 'MORE! or 'LESS!'.


> 
> Jan
> 

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