Hi all (and a Happy New Year), besides the actual release and the remaining code issues there are a few other items that typically need to be done. I am listing these below. Some have owners, others don't. If you are on the CC list, please have a look at the unowned pages and see whether you can help.
Once all the outstanding changes have made it into master, please let me know such that I can re-run the stats. If not, people may not be credited for their contribution. = (Owned) Documentation - needs checking = * Lars: http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_4.5_Feature_List ** it is possible that a feature you developed was missed or wrongly described. Feel free to add to the page or update it. * Lars: http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Release_Features ** The Host Limits need to be checked. I believe the limits for ARM increased. Not sure about x98 = (Unowned) Documentation = These will need to be checked by someone who knows the relevant functionality. Please reply to this section. * http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Linux_PVH - not sure whether this page correct. Someone in the know please have a look and ACK or point out issues * http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_4.5_Release_Notes - I can populate some of it. Will need help for the known issues section though * http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_with_Virtualization_Extensions/OdroidXU - missing = (Owned) Documentation = * Lars: http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_4.5_Acknowledgements - will populate after I ran the stats script after the last commit * Lars: http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_4.5_Man_Pages - done, but links are broken until the branch is made = (Owned) Making the Release = Typically done by Ian Jackson and me. See http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Checklist/XenHypervisorRelease = (Owned) Press release / Blog post = Done by Sarah Conway and me Status: have a draft press release and blog post (see http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/publicity/2015-01/msg00001.html) - feel free to check your feature description Open Issue: Konrad to check whether he is allowed to publish the blog post under his name. If not we can create a Release Manager account to publish it under. Cheers Lars On 5 Jan 2015, at 20:08, konrad.w...@oracle.com wrote: > Xen 4.5-rc4 was out on Monday (Dec 15th). The GA > General Release is on Jan 7th^H^H^14th! > > There are some outstanding patches on which we need to figure > out whether we will commit them in or not. > > When we commit a patch in, the OSSTest takes a day or so to push it to > 'master' > - and if it fails during that time patches that are later in the sequence are > not applied. Hence if everything works out great - we get the patches > to show up next day - however if something breaks - we are stalled. > > Ian(s) has pointed to me that the OSSTest is sometimes on the fritz and that > it > might take more than one day to push patches through which means we won't > make it by Wednesday. > > As such, moving it the release by a week to give us ample room to get through > those changes. > > These are the patches that need to be investigated whether they should > go in or not: > > VT-d: don't crash when PTE bits 52 and up are non-zero > VT-d: extend XSA-59 workaround to XeonE5 v3 (Haswell) > VT-d: make XSA-59 workaround fully cover XeonE5/E7 v2 > x86/VPMU: Clear last_vcpu when destroying VPMU > tools/hotplug: add wrapper to start xenstored > tools/hotplug: remove EnvironmentFile from xen-qemu-dom0-disk-backend.service > tools/hotplug: use XENCONSOLED_TRACE in xenconsoled.service > tools/hotplug: use xencommons as EnvironmentFile in xenconsoled.service > tools/hotplug: xendomains.service depends on network > tools/hotplug: remove XENSTORED_ROOTDIR from xenstored.service > tools/hotplug: remove SELinux options from var-lib-xenstored.mount > tools/libxl: Use of init()/dispose() to avoid leaking libxl_dominfo.ss > xen: arm: correct off-by-one error in consider_module > > > = Timeline = > > Xen 4.5 is a 10 month release. The dates are: > > * Feature Freeze: 24th September 2014 > * First RC: 24th October [Friday!] > * RC2: Nov 11th > * RC2 Test-day: Nov 13th > * RC3: Dec 3rd. > * RC3 Test-day: Dec 4th > * RC4: Dec 15th > * RC4 Test-day: Dec 17th > > <==== WE ARE HERE ===> > > Release Date: Jan 14th. > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xen.org > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel