Re: [Xen-devel] Next 4.6.x stable release, numbering, qemu-tag

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 15.06.16 at 10:57, <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 14/06/16 20:27, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>> And, we ought not to let this issue delay the actual point release and
>>> it is close to being on the critical path.  A decision is needed.
>> 
>> My personal preferred color is 4.6.2.1 (and I believe we did a similar
>> release in the past: RELEASE-4.1.6.1)
> 
> I thought we had a discussion about this before and determined that this
> would be confusing.  My understanding was that at some point we agreed
> that we'd only go with three levels, and to just "burn" a point number
> if a situation like 4.1.6.1 ever came up again.  There's no reason to go
> back and revisit that decision.
> 
> And Jan's point (as I understand it) is that the Xen tree has not been
> tagged yet, and so the Xen release number shouldn't be restricted by the
> fact that the corresponding qemu *has* been tagged.  So I suspect he'd
> object to 4.6.2.1 for the same reason he objects to 4.6.3.

Indeed. And if I have to pick between the two, I'd choose the latter.

Jan


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