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Re: [Xen-devel] Design session report: Xen on Distros
- To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>, George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
- From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 17:52:55 +0100
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- Delivery-date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 16:53:08 +0000
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On 17/07/2019 13:37, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 17.07.2019 12:33, George Dunlap wrote:
>>> On Jul 16, 2019, at 11:03 PM, Andrew Cooper
>>>
>>> We could trivially throw the fixes into the branch, tag it, sign it and
>>> throw it out into the open, but doing that on the embargo date itself
>>> would result in an official release of Xen which has had 0 testing in
>>> the incumbent test system.
>> The point is that anyone who ships / deploys a fix on the disclosure date
>> is pretty much shipping exactly that. If it’s not good enough to sign,
>> why is it good enough to deploy?
> I think the security fixes themselves are good enough to deploy, perhaps
> with the assumption that consumers of our pre-disclosure list have done
> some testing on their own. The stable trees, however, contain more than
> just security fixes, and can have regressions (most likely due to
> backporting mistakes).
Right, but e.g. proposed changing the commit/push model whereby all
changes must pass CI before they get merged would reduce the likelyhood
of bad backports getting into staging-* in the first place.
~Andrew
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