[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: Xen 4.16: Proposed release manager and schedule
Julien Grall writes ("Re: Xen 4.16: Proposed release manager and schedule"): > On 19/08/2021 16:36, Ian Jackson wrote: > > One option is to slip the whole release, in the expectation (hope!) of > > collecting more input. In practical terms because of the impact of > > Christmas and New Year on many of our contributors, a month's slip now > > is probably more like two months' slip to the release. So arguably > > for this to be worth it, we ought to plan to slip 2 months now and > > release in February. > > A 2 months slip looks appealling to get more features. But it means we > will end up to split all the future releases. No, it wouldn't, really. Our usual release interval is 9 months. 9+2 = 11, so the result would be a one month longer release, if we delayed this one by 2 months. In practice it is always a bit of a struggle to keep things to time (that's the way things are set up with this system) so I think this is well within our usual tolerances. For the avoidance of doubt, I am not arguing in favour of this option. But I wanted to present it as a reasonable option the community might want to consider. Jan, do you have an opnion about this ? Do you expect that a 2-3 month slip would help with your review backlog, bearing in mind the people who are currently on leave and when they'll be back ? If no-one wishes to argue in favour of the longer slip I think we should go with the normal plan. > At the moment, my preference is to stick with the release in December. > We don't have major contributions checked in yet on Arm, but there is a > chance to have a couple of them with the current schedule on Arm. > > We also have a collection of bug fixes which makes Arm running better on > some platform. > > So I think the release would still be worthwhile even in the worst case > where nothing major is merged. Thanks for the opinion. Can I at least get a +1 from someone for appointing me as RM for 4.16 ? :-) Thanks, Ian.
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