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.
Cheers,
--
Julien Grall
