Re: [Xen-devel] Design session report: Xen on Distros

2019-07-17 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 17/07/2019 13:37, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 17.07.2019 12:33, George Dunlap wrote: >>> On Jul 16, 2019, at 11:03 PM, Andrew Cooper >>> >>> We could trivially throw the fixes into the branch, tag it, sign it and >>> throw it out into the open, but doing that on the embargo date itself >>> would

Re: [Xen-devel] Design session report: Xen on Distros

2019-07-17 Thread Jan Beulich
On 17.07.2019 12:33, George Dunlap wrote: > >> On Jul 16, 2019, at 11:03 PM, Andrew Cooper >> >> We could trivially throw the fixes into the branch, tag it, sign it and >> throw it out into the open, but doing that on the embargo date itself >> would result in an official release of Xen which has

Re: [Xen-devel] Design session report: Xen on Distros

2019-07-17 Thread George Dunlap
> On Jul 16, 2019, at 11:03 PM, Andrew Cooper > > We could trivially throw the fixes into the branch, tag it, sign it and > throw it out into the open, but doing that on the embargo date itself > would result in an official release of Xen which has had 0 testing in > the incumbent test system.

Re: [Xen-devel] Design session report: Xen on Distros

2019-07-17 Thread Hans van Kranenburg
Hi, On 7/15/19 4:42 PM, George Dunlap wrote: > On 7/15/19 3:23 PM, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 15.07.2019 16:11, George Dunlap wrote: >>> There was a long discussion about security patches, with the general >>> proposal being that we should cut a point release for every security issue. >> >>

Re: [Xen-devel] Design session report: Xen on Distros

2019-07-16 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 15/07/2019 18:52, Amit Shah wrote: > On Mon, 2019-07-15 at 14:52 +, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 15.07.2019 16:42, George Dunlap wrote: >>> On 7/15/19 3:23 PM, Jan Beulich wrote: On 15.07.2019 16:11, George Dunlap wrote: > There was a long discussion about security patches, with the

Re: [Xen-devel] Design session report: Xen on Distros

2019-07-15 Thread Amit Shah
On Mon, 2019-07-15 at 14:52 +, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 15.07.2019 16:42, George Dunlap wrote: > > On 7/15/19 3:23 PM, Jan Beulich wrote: > > > On 15.07.2019 16:11, George Dunlap wrote: > > > > There was a long discussion about security patches, with the > > > > general > > > > proposal being

Re: [Xen-devel] Design session report: Xen on Distros

2019-07-15 Thread Jan Beulich
On 15.07.2019 16:42, George Dunlap wrote: > On 7/15/19 3:23 PM, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 15.07.2019 16:11, George Dunlap wrote: >>> There was a long discussion about security patches, with the general >>> proposal being that we should cut a point release for every security issue. >> >>

Re: [Xen-devel] Design session report: Xen on Distros

2019-07-15 Thread George Dunlap
On 7/15/19 3:42 PM, George Dunlap wrote: > On 7/15/19 3:23 PM, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 15.07.2019 16:11, George Dunlap wrote: >>> There was a long discussion about security patches, with the general >>> proposal being that we should cut a point release for every security issue. >> >> Interesting.

Re: [Xen-devel] Design session report: Xen on Distros

2019-07-15 Thread George Dunlap
On 7/15/19 3:23 PM, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 15.07.2019 16:11, George Dunlap wrote: >> There was a long discussion about security patches, with the general >> proposal being that we should cut a point release for every security issue. > > Interesting. Looks like in politics that until a decision

Re: [Xen-devel] Design session report: Xen on Distros

2019-07-15 Thread Jan Beulich
On 15.07.2019 16:11, George Dunlap wrote: > There was a long discussion about security patches, with the general > proposal being that we should cut a point release for every security issue. Interesting. Looks like in politics that until a decision fits people they keep re-raising the point. Iirc