Re: Stats on Xen tarball downloads

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 6:38 PM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 19.02.2024 11:31, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 06:01:54PM +0800, George Dunlap wrote:
> >> One of the questions we had with respect to changing our release
> >> practice (for instance, making the process more light-weight so that
> >> we could do a point release after every XSA) was, "How many people are
> >> actually using the tarballs?"
> >
> > What would this more lightweight process involve from a downstream
> > PoV?  IOW: in what would the contents of the tarball change compared
> > to the current releases?
>
> From all prior discussion my conclusion was "no tarball at all".

Or at very least, the tarball would be a simple `git archive` of a
release tag.   Right now the tarball creation has a number of
annoyingly manual parts about it.


 -George