Re: [Xen-devel] Radical proposal v2: Publish Amazon's verison now, Citrix's version soon

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 10.01.18 at 14:34, <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'd like to propose a new appraoch:
> 
> 1. Immediately release Amazon's v1 series for people who can / prefer
> to use the HVM + sidecar option.
> - Advisory and HOWTO should include who should use this option, and
>   how to do it.
> - Check the series into a branch on xenbits, and add a signed tag
> - HOWTO-vixen, and sidecar script, to be included in the advisory.
> 
> 2. As soon as possible, release Citrix's series for people who can /
> prefer to use the PVH + toolstack option.
> - Immediate work should focus on getting PVH + toolstack functionality
>   ready to release
> - When ready, advisory and HOWTO should include who should use this
>   option and how
> - Either check the series into a branch on xenbits, or into
>   staging-4.10
> - HOWTO-pvh to be included in the advisory.
> 
> This should allow us to get a solution to the widest number of users
> in the shortest amount of time; it also allows us to leverage the
> testing efforts of both Amazon (for breadth of Xen versions) and
> Citrix (for depth of functionality).
> 
> That takes the pressure off us to check in one or the other version of
> the patch series.
> 
> Going forward, we could work towards the convergence of functionality
> from either patch series.  But it looks superficially at least like
> the Citrix series is closer to the convergence point, and so it seems
> like using that as a starting point would make the most sense.

There are a couple of instances of "a branch", and I'm not really
clear on which one that would be, yet in part my opinion depends
on that, as this will affect what state certain branches will be in
for subsequent work. As I agree with the PVH shim being the
better baseline for work going forward, in particular I wouldn't like
to see the Vixen series becoming the base of any branch going to
be maintained going forward.

Jan


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