[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: change to 6 months release cycle
On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 12:55:00PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 13:51 +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > > On 10/05/2015 01:44 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. > > > > > > 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. > > > > And again there will be a rush to get a feature in at the end of each > > Nth cycle, as it will end up in the long-term stable version... > > I actually think there is plenty of stuff which people just want in _some_ > release. > I concur. Having a feature in some release, albeit not the stable one, helps. For example, downstream developer will have a strong justification for backporting stuff. As for "rush to get a feature at the end of each Nth cycle", it wouldn't put us in a worse situation than we already have because N==1 nowadays. Wei. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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