Re: Xen 4.20 release schedule proposal

[oleksii.kurochko@xxxxxxxxx]

On Thu, 2024-09-19 at 21:30 +0200, Julien Grall wrote:
> 
> 
> On 19/09/2024 18:10, Oleksii Kurochko wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > Following the 8-month release cycle, also taking into account that
> > 4.19
> > has been released 27.07.24 and the next "good" month for release
> > should
> > be November according to [1] but it seems to me that it could be
> > too short,
> > below is the proposed release schedule that I come up with for Xen
> > 4.20.
> > 
> > Please don't hesitate to provide your feedback.
> > 
> > If there are no objections, I plan to update the Wiki page
> > *Xen_Project_X.YY_Release_Notes* to make it easier to find our
> > final
> > schedule ( especially for the people who aren't following xen-devel
> > mailing
> > list ). As an additional benefit, it will also be accessible via
> > *SUPPORT.md* (in the wiki at
> > https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable-staging/support-matrix.html).
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > ** Proposed option: Wed March 12, 2024 **
> > (+8 months from Xen 4.19 release)
> > 
> > - Last posting date          Fri Dec 20, 2023 (+13 weeks from now)
> > 
> > Patches adding new features are expected to be posted to the
> > mailing
> > list by this date, although perhaps not in their final version.
>  > > - Feature freeze             Fri Jan 10, 2024 (+3 weeks from
> Last 
> posting
> > date)
> > 
> > Patches adding new features should be committed by this date.
> > Straightforward bugfixes may continue to be accepted by
> > maintainers.
> 
> I expect a few maintainer to be off around Christmas for a couple of 
> weeks. So that will not leave much time between the last posting date
> and feature freeze. If you don't want to push too much the release,
> then 
> I think it would be better if the feature freeze is just before (e.g.
> 20th December) so last posting date early December.
Thank you for the feedback.
It makes sense to me to move the feature freeze to December 20th and
the last posting date to November 30th.

~ Oleksii