Hi Julien and Jan, Thanks for being cautious :)
> -----Original Message----- > From: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> > Subject: Re: Feedback for postponing the 4.17 release to a week later > > On 28.10.2022 10:57, Julien Grall wrote: > > On 28/10/2022 05:43, Henry Wang wrote: > >> Since there will be a batch of XSAs released on Nov. 1 [1] and the original > date for > >> the 4.17 release was supposed to be Nov. 2, I am thinking to postpone the > 4.17 > >> release to a week later (Nov. 11) to give a little bit longer time so that: > >> > >> - The security team won't do anything in rush. > >> - We can have more feedback after merging these XSAs. > >> - Include more release-relevant bugfixes. > >> > >> May I please have some feedback on this proposal? Thanks very much! > > > > Somewhat related. When should we branch for the release and set > > CONFIG_DEBUG=n? > > > > I think we would at least need a RC with CONFIG_DEBUG=n but IIUC we > > usually do it at a point where the tree is nearly frozen. > > > > AFAICT, there are still a few things in flight (including fix for > > XSA-409). So I am not sure we are in position yet to branch. Any opinions? > > +1 to it being too early to branch. I would suggest that the XSA batch > should have gone in first and release blockers should have been dealt > with (unless for some it is clear that they're going to be unintrusive), > to limit what needs applying to staging and the new branch. I agree, therefore I think we can switch to CONFIG_DEBUG=n in the RC next week after the Nov. 1 XSAs. So we have at least a week after the RC3. Does this sound ok? Kind regards, Henry > > Jan
