Proposal to Extend Feature Freeze Deadline

["Oleksii K." <oleksii.kurochko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everyone,

We're observing fewer merged patches/series across several
architectures for the current 4.19 release in comparison to previous
release.

For example:
1. For Arm, significant features like Cache Coloring and PCI
Passthrough won't be fully merged. Thus, it would be beneficial to
commit at least the following two patch series: 
[1]https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20240511005611.83125-1-xin.wang2@xxxxxxx/
  
[2]https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20240424033449.168398-1-xin.wang2@xxxxxxx/

2. For RISC-V, having the following patch series [3], mostly reviewed
with only one blocker [4], would be advantageous (As far as I know,
Andrew is planning to update his patch series):
[3]https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/cover.1713347222.git.oleksii.kurochko@xxxxxxxxx/
[4]
https://patchew.org/Xen/20240313172716.2325427-1-andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx/

3. For PPC, it would be beneficial to have [5] merged:
[5]
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/cover.1712893887.git.sanastasio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Extending the feature freeze deadline by one week, until May 24th,
would provide additional time for merges mentioned above. This, in
turn, would create space for more features and fixes for x86 and other
common elements. If we agree to extend the feature freeze deadline,
please feel free to outline what you would like to see in the 4.19
release. This will make it easier to track our final goals and
determine if they are realistically achievable.

I'd like to open the floor for discussion on this proposal. Does it
make sense, and would it be useful?

Have a great day!

Best regards,
  Olesii