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

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2015-10-13 at 11:36 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> 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".

Right.


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