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

[Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>]

On 28/10/2022 05:43, Henry Wang wrote:
> Hi all,
Hi Henry and others,

> 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!
Somewhat related. When should we branch for the release and set 
CONFIG_DEBUG=n?
I think we would at least need a RC with CONFIG_DEBUG=n but IIUC we 
usually do it at a point where the tree is nearly frozen.

AFAICT, there are still a few things in flight (including fix for 
XSA-409). So I am not sure we are in position yet to branch. Any opinions?
Cheers,

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Julien Grall