Re: [Xen-devel] [OSSTEST PATCH 3/3] make-flight: Drop Windows XP tests

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 04.05.17 at 14:20, <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> XP is really quite obsolete now.
> 
> From diffing standalone-generate-dump-flight-runvars output,
> the tests that are dropped are:
>   test-amd64-amd64-xl-qemut-winxpsp3
>   test-amd64-amd64-xl-qemuu-winxpsp3
>   test-amd64-i386-xl-qemut-winxpsp3
>   test-amd64-i386-xl-qemut-winxpsp3-vcpus1
>   test-amd64-i386-xl-qemuu-winxpsp3
>   test-amd64-i386-xl-qemuu-winxpsp3-vcpus1
> 
> This means we are introducing 8 tests and dropping 7.
> 
> We drop the tests only on the branches:
>   linux-3.0
>   linux-3.10
>   linux-3.14
>   linux-3.16
>   linux-3.18
>   linux-3.4
>   linux-4.1
>   linux-4.9
>   linux-linus
>   linux-next
>   osstest
>   qemu-mainline
>   qemu-upstream-4.7-testing
>   qemu-upstream-4.8-testing
>   qemu-upstream-unstable
>   seabios
>   xen-4.7-testing
>   xen-4.8-testing
>   xen-unstable
> 
> The other branches are mostly out-of-support Xen branches.  These are
> either old ones we are still doing security support for (and would
> like to know about regressions on, even for old guests), or very old
> ones which we don't expect to change ever.

4.6, while having passed the 1.5 year general support limit, had
its most recent stable release go out before that time span was
over, so I think we owe the community another stable release
there. Hence I'm wondering whether it should be grouped with
4.7 and 4.8 above.

Jan


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