Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: change to 6 months release cycle

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 11:29:35AM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
[...]
> >
> > With the proposed scheme, the dates will be:
> >
> >  - 4.7 cut-off date: April 1, 2016
> >  - 4.7 release date: June 1, 2016
> >
> >  - 4.8 cut-off date: September 30, 2016
> >  - 4.8 release date: December 2, 2016
> >
> >  - 4.9 cut-off date: March 31, 2017
> >  - 4.9 release date: June 2, 2017
> 
> Won't that mean that 4.7 will essentially have a 9-month release again?
> 

Yes, but we need to start somewhere...

> But the actual dates all look good -- hard cut-off more than 4 weeks
> after any major holiday, release 3-4 weeks before any major holiday.
> So we'll basically just have to wait until 4.8 to *actually* try the
> 6-month cycle thing.
> 
> I'm 100% on board with the "hard cut-off", but since we're dealing
> with human beings, I think we should also include another target for
> people to aim for.  We should tell people to *target* submissions for
> at least 1 week, maybe 2, before the hard deadline.
> 

That's a good idea.

Wei.

> So that would be:
> 
> 4.7 submission target: 18 March 2016
> 4.7 cut-off: 1 April 2016
> 4.7 expected release: 1 June 2016
> 
> 4.8 submission target: 16 September 2016
> 4.8 cut-off: 30 September 2016
> 4.8 expected release: 2 December, 2016
> 
>  -George

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