Re: [Xen-devel] Next 4.6.x stable release, numbering, qemu-tag

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 15/06/16 11:25, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 15.06.16 at 12:13, <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 15/06/16 11:04, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>> On 15.06.16 at 11:35, <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> The version of qemu-xen that was tagged with 4.6 had been through
>>>> several rounds of RCs, months of osstesting, and even through a slew of
>>>> builds on Travis (which does build Ubuntu, but apparently just not the
>>>> bleeding-edge version).  I only happened to notice it as I was trying to
>>>> get patches for raisin for 4.7.
>>>
>>> The mere fact that 4.6.0 and 4.6.1 exhibited the same issue (and,
>>> from what you're saying now, which is different from what I've
>>> understood before, already did when they were cut) would make
>>> dealing with the issue a non-release-critical one for my taste. IOW,
>>> if a new version of Ubuntu showed up after 4.6.1, then fixing the
>>> issue in 4.6.2 (now 4.6.3) would indeed be rather desirable. If,
>>> however, that release was around already at the time 4.6.1 got
>>> cut, then I don't see why this is so urgent a problem to address.
>>
>> And this is exactly what happened -- the version of Ubuntu which breaks
>> is 16.04, which (as the name indicates) came out in April 2016 -- two
>> months after 4.6.1. :-)
> 
> In which case I don't really follow what you tried to point out with
> the first sentence of your earlier reply still visible above.

I should have said, "tagged 4.6.2".  My point was, there already was a
lot of testing done for 4.6.2; the tag was done with all the care that
can be reasonably expected.

 -George

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