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


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  • From: Steven Haigh <netwiz@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 22:51:25 +1100
  • Delivery-date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 11:51:29 +0000
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xen.org>
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On 5/10/2015 10:44 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 12:23 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
>> we can pick a stable tree every X releases etc etc.
> 
> I think switching to an LTS style model, i.e. only supporting 1/N for
> longer than it takes to release the next major version might be interesting
> to consider. I'm thinking e.g. of N=4 with a 6 month cycle.

^^ This.

> I think some of our downstreams (i.e. distros) would like this, since it
> gives them releases which are supported for a length of time more like
> their own release cycles.

^^ This as well :)

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Steven Haigh

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