[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Xen 4.15 release schedule and feature tracking
On 07.01.21 16:35, Ian Jackson wrote: Hi Ian Hi. As the Release Manage for Xen 4.15 I am going to start tracking the status of features which people are looking to get into Xen 4.15. NB that the Last Posting Date is just over a week from now. If you are working on a feature you want in 4.15 please let me know about it. I work on virtio-mmio on Arm which involves x86's IOREQ/DM features.Currently I am working on making the said features common, implementing missing bits, code cleanup an hardening, etc. I don't think the virtio-mmio is a 4.15 material, but it would be great have at least "common" IOREQ/DM in 4.15. Ideally I'd like a little stanza like this: S: feature name The corresponding thread named: IOREQ feature (+ virtio-mmio) on Arm https://www.mail-archive.com/xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg87002.html O: feature owner (proponent) name E: feature owner (proponent) email address Julien as initiator of this activity, me as a person who continues this activity and tries to get it upstreamed: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx> Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@xxxxxxxx> P: your current estimate of the probability it making 4.15, as a %age Difficult to say, it depends ...RFC was posted Aug 3, 2020, The last posted version is V3. Currently I am in the middle of preparing v4, still need to find a common ground for few bits. But free-form text is OK too. Please reply to this mail. NB the primary responsibility for driving a feature's progress to meet the release schedule, lies with the feature's proponent(s). As a reminder, here is the release schedule: Friday 15th January Last posting date Patches adding new features should be posted to the mailing list by this cate, although perhaps not in their final version. Friday 29th January Feature freezePatches adding new features should be committed by this date.Straightforward bugfixes may continue to be accepted by maintainers. Friday 12th February **tentatve** Code freeze Bugfixes only, all changes to be approved by the Release Manager. Week of 12th March **tentative** Release (probably Tuesday or Wednesday) Any patches containing substantial refactoring are to treated as new features, even if they intent is to fix bugs. Freeze exceptions will not be routine, but may be granted in exceptional cases for small changes on the basis of risk assessment. Large series will not get exceptions. Contributors *must not* rely on getting, or expect, a freeze exception. The codefreeze and release dates are very much provisional and will be adjusted in the light of apparent code quality etc. If as a feature proponent you feel your feature is at risk and there is something the Xen Project could do to help, please consult me or the Community Manager. In such situations please reach out earlier rather than later. Ian. -- Regards, Oleksandr Tyshchenko
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