Re: Xen 4.18 release: Reminder about last posting date

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2023, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 07/08/2023 2:24 am, Henry Wang wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Following the release schedule discussion in in April, I am sending this 
> > email
> > to remind that according to the release schedule [1], August 11 (this 
> > Friday)
> > will be the last posting date, when patches adding new features are expected
> > to be posted to the mailing list by this date.
> >
> > Also, note that we currently have 1 release blocker [2] which might need
> > some attention.
> >
> > [1] 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/AS8PR08MB79919F9CE0B2BF80E7103FB592609@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > [2] https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen/-/issues/114
> 
> Off the top of my head.
> 
> There are still unaddressed Gitlab bugs from the Eclair integration

The bug you managed to find it is now fixed (commit e55146071de9). I am
all for fixing Gitlab bugs so let me know if you find anything else! I
am not aware of any other issue with Eclair at the moment.


> and other Gitlab bugs (use of unstable containers) which I'd unwilling
> to let 4.18 be released with, given the pain we've had on the stable
> trees trying to keep CI working.

That is fair enough. To make this more concrete and easier to track, the
following would need to be changed to using stable containers:

- .qemu-arm64
- .qemu-arm32
(I am not counting .qemu-riscv64)

Andrew, is that what you meant? Am I missing anything?