Re: [Xen-devel] Proposal to drop Windows XP tests from Xen Project CI

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Jackson writes ("Proposal to drop Windows XP tests from Xen Project CI"):
> Recently, the tests of Windows XP SP3 that are run by osstest, as part
> of the Xen Project's test suite, have started failing a lot more.
> 
> It is not clear what has caused this.  The failures are causing
> blockages: several of our `staging' branches are not gettting pushed
> to the corresponding `stable' or `master' branches.  Older Xen
> releases, as well as current master (4.9-rc) are affected.  This is a
> problem for Xen development.
> 
> In my capacity as osstest administrator, I have tried to find someone
> to help debug these.  (I don't have the knowledge to do so myself.)
> 
> I haven't had a good response.  My colleagues at Citrix tell me that
> their internal XenRT system, used for XenServer, will be dropping its
> own tests of Windows XP.  It's been suggested to me to simply drop the
> Xen Project tests of Windows XP.
> 
> If you thinks that XP should continue to work well, and therefore to
> be tested, I'm afraid I need your help.  Please contact me at the
> address above, and I can provide more details, help, etc.

I have just pushed to osstest pretest the change to drop testing of
Windows XP.  We are replacing it with tests of Windows Server 2016 and
Windows 10 (but of course as those are new tests, they will not count
for blocking regressions until they have passed).

Jan Beulich writes ("Re: [OSSTEST PATCH 3/3] make-flight: Drop Windows XP 
tests"):
> On 04.05.17 at 14:20, <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > We drop the tests only on the branches:
...
> >   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.

Done.  (Ie, I am dropping the tests on Xen 4.6 too.)

Ian.

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