Re: [Xen-users] Question about source branches

[Tom Mornini <tmornini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for this very informative description.

Is it clear yet what kernel releases are slated for 3.0.4-2 and  
3.0.5, and what the timeframe might be on those releases?
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On Mar 6, 2007, at 12:40 PM, Mark Williamson wrote:

> > Could someone explain the source branches of the Mercurial  
> > repository?
> > i.e. what is intended for unstable (3.1, 4.0?) -vs- stable -vs-  
> > testing?
> -unstable is the development for whatever the next major release  
> is.  Right
> now thats 3.0.5.
>
> -testing incorporates the most recent major release + fixes.   
> Occasionally,
> once the fixes have accumulated, the state of this tree is tagged  
> as a new
> bugfix release.
>
> > I'd like to understand this in general, but I also have two specific
> > questions:
> >
> >    1) Which branch is headed toward 3.05, for instance?
> >    2) What is intended for unstable?
> Right now unstable is going to be 3.0.5.  Once that's released, - 
> unstable will
> continue to develop and become 3.0.6, etc.
>
> The version numbers vaguely follow the Linux scheme, so for w.x.y-z  
> changes
> in "z" indicate bug fixes, changes in y indicate new features,  
> changes in x
> mean *bigger* new features.  Changes in w have (so far) been used  
> to indicate
> non-backwards-compatible changes in the guest<->Xen API
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
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