Re: [Publicity] Blog post for Xen 4.6 release ready for review

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-10-13 at 11:15 +0100, Lars Kurth wrote:
> > > On 12 Oct 2015, at 16:34, Stefano Stabellini <
> > > stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > I think it would be nice to mention at the end (but maybe before the
> > > full instructions about xen.git?) that people can use Raisin to build a
> > > full Xen 4.6 system from source. They only need to:
> > > 
> > > git clone git://xenbits.xen.org/raisin.git
> > > cd raisin
> > > cp configs/config-4.6 config
> > > ./raise -y build
> > 
> > OK, happy to add it and possibly also to 
> > http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Project_4.6_Release_Notes (or in fact add a
> > section called "Building with Raisin" to the release notes and link to it
> > from the post
> 
> Shouldn't we e.g. be routinely testing raisin before we promote it to being
> The Official(tm) way for users to build Xen and pointing to it in release
> notes (at least as the primary way to do things)?

It is true that Raisin is not automatically tested. Maybe we should say
something along the lines of "if you want to give raisin a try..."
rather than "the recommended way to get Xen 4.6 is raisin".

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