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RE: Feedback for postponing the 4.17 release to a week later
- To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>, Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>
- From: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 09:07:42 +0000
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- Thread-topic: Feedback for postponing the 4.17 release to a week later
Hi Julien and Jan,
Thanks for being cautious :)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Feedback for postponing the 4.17 release to a week later
>
> On 28.10.2022 10:57, Julien Grall wrote:
> > On 28/10/2022 05:43, Henry Wang wrote:
> >> 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?
>
> +1 to it being too early to branch. I would suggest that the XSA batch
> should have gone in first and release blockers should have been dealt
> with (unless for some it is clear that they're going to be unintrusive),
> to limit what needs applying to staging and the new branch.
I agree, therefore I think we can switch to CONFIG_DEBUG=n in the RC
next week after the Nov. 1 XSAs. So we have at least a week after the RC3.
Does this sound ok?
Kind regards,
Henry
>
> Jan
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