From patchwork Fri Jul 8 04:12:58 2022 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: =?utf-8?b?SsO8cmdlbiBHcm/Dnw==?= X-Patchwork-Id: 12910523 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from lists.xenproject.org (lists.xenproject.org [192.237.175.120]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B5C51C43334 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2022 04:13:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lists.xenproject.org with outflank-mailman.363208.593644 (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o9fMW-0003dR-6p; Fri, 08 Jul 2022 04:13:04 +0000 X-Outflank-Mailman: Message body and most headers restored to incoming version Received: by outflank-mailman (output) from mailman id 363208.593644; Fri, 08 Jul 2022 04:13:04 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.xenproject.org) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o9fMW-0003dK-30; Fri, 08 Jul 2022 04:13:04 +0000 Received: by outflank-mailman (input) for mailman id 363208; Fri, 08 Jul 2022 04:13:02 +0000 Received: from se1-gles-sth1-in.inumbo.com ([159.253.27.254] helo=se1-gles-sth1.inumbo.com) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o9fMU-0003dE-La for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2022 04:13:02 +0000 Received: from smtp-out2.suse.de (smtp-out2.suse.de [195.135.220.29]) by se1-gles-sth1.inumbo.com (Halon) with ESMTPS id 41047b32-fe74-11ec-bd2d-47488cf2e6aa; Fri, 08 Jul 2022 06:13:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de (imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de [192.168.254.74]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (P-521) server-digest SHA512) (No client certificate requested) by smtp-out2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D01331FE05; Fri, 8 Jul 2022 04:12:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de (imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de [192.168.254.74]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (P-521) server-digest SHA512) (No client certificate requested) by imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 868D3134A9; Fri, 8 Jul 2022 04:12:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dovecot-director2.suse.de ([192.168.254.65]) by imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de with ESMTPSA id 5uZhH8uux2KpTQAAMHmgww (envelope-from ); Fri, 08 Jul 2022 04:12:59 +0000 X-BeenThere: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: Xen developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Precedence: list Sender: "Xen-devel" X-Inumbo-ID: 41047b32-fe74-11ec-bd2d-47488cf2e6aa DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=suse.com; s=susede1; t=1657253579; h=from:from:reply-to:date:date:message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc: mime-version:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding; bh=lrzw+Qqdip2nsfCNq9eOVaFJTXPMdrkiCgFxrgCBoiA=; b=O6X9HOHcY9G35+fQFSQhSv9s+e10W9RDexLSKAuAi1cEnrpUvWKV6RxX7jzxW7yM3R7+fq B3v3KTm7B58wrd1jN5+E5OgE0l2SqCK2wnyYhlxYbnDofX6NYp0rE+B+NEqpfLIxoFVKDp P2resB3vd317lb19CR5MEU+xVxdkHp4= From: Juergen Gross To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Cc: Henry.Wang@arm.com, Juergen Gross , Andrew Cooper , George Dunlap , Jan Beulich , Julien Grall , Stefano Stabellini , Wei Liu Subject: [PATCH] docs: add reference to release cycle discussion Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2022 06:12:58 +0200 Message-Id: <20220708041258.10349-1-jgross@suse.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.35.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 As it is coming up basically every release cycle of Xen, add a reference to the discussion why the current release scheme has been selected in the release management documentation. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Reviewed-by: Henry Wang Acked-by: Henry Wang Acked-by: Jan Beulich --- docs/process/xen-release-management.pandoc | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/process/xen-release-management.pandoc b/docs/process/xen-release-management.pandoc index b746c7157d..8f80d61d2f 100644 --- a/docs/process/xen-release-management.pandoc +++ b/docs/process/xen-release-management.pandoc @@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ The Xen hypervisor project now releases every 8 months. We aim to release in the first half of March/July/November. These dates have been chosen to avoid major holidays and cultural events; if one release slips, ideally the subsequent release cycle would be shortened. +The reasons for this schedule have been discussed on +[xen-devel](https://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2018-07/msg02240.html). We can roughly divide one release into two periods. The development period and the freeze period. The former is 6 months long and the latter is about 2