Re: Xen 4.16: Proposed release manager and schedule

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 24.08.21 15:38, Ian Jackson wrote:
> 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.
8 months (that's what I suggested in my time as a release manager and
what was approved and never changed "officially").

> 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 ? :-)
+1 :-)


Juergen

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