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| author | Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org> | 2020-11-25 13:22:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org> | 2021-01-28 16:52:48 +0000 |
| commit | 525cae0b9eb359774f08ceb609c333954bcb00e8 (patch) | |
| tree | 1b65726b640abae82f28c96652cb259023d210a3 /docs | |
| parent | e8524e4d4d612ef53943f539da2e81785282e5af (diff) | |
xen-release-management doc: More info on schedule
This documents our practice, established in 2018
https://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2018-07/msg02240.html
et seq
CC: Jürgen Groß <jgross@suse.com>
CC: Paul Durrant <xadimgnik@gmail.com>
CC: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/process/xen-release-management.pandoc | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/process/xen-release-management.pandoc b/docs/process/xen-release-management.pandoc index e1aa1eda8f..b746c7157d 100644 --- a/docs/process/xen-release-management.pandoc +++ b/docs/process/xen-release-management.pandoc @@ -15,8 +15,10 @@ that they can have an idea what to expect from the Release Manager. # Xen release cycle -The Xen hypervisor project now releases every 8 months. The actual release date -depends on a lot of factors. +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. 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 @@ -33,6 +35,12 @@ During freeze period, the tree is closed for new features. Only bug fixes are accepted. This period can be shorter or longer than 2 months. If it ends up longer than 2 months, it eats into the next development period. +The precise release schedule depends on a lot of factors and needs to +be set afresh by the Release Manager in each release cycle. When the +release is in March, particular consideration should be given to the +Chinese New Year holiday which will then typically occur during the +freeze, so the freeze should probably be extended to compensate. + # The different roles in a Xen release ## Release Manager |