Re: Feedback for postponing the 4.17 release to a week later

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 28.10.22 06:43, Henry Wang wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Since there will be a batch of XSAs released on Nov. 1 [1] and the original 
> date for
> the 4.17 release was supposed to be Nov. 2, I am thinking to postpone the 4.17
> release to a week later (Nov. 11) to give a little bit longer time so that:
>
> - The security team won't do anything in rush.
> - We can have more feedback after merging these XSAs.
> - Include more release-relevant bugfixes.
>
> May I please have some feedback on this proposal? Thanks very much!
The alternatives would be:

- not including the XSAs in 4.17 (IMO a bad idea)
- don't do final tests with the XSAs included (another bad idea)

This is a clear indication for me to delay the release, like we did in
similar cases in the past several times.


Juergen

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