Re: [Xen-devel] Proposal: Feature Maturity Lifecycle

2015-06-16 Thread George Dunlap
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Wei Liu wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 05:34:08PM +0100, Lars Kurth wrote: >> >> > On 15 Jun 2015, at 15:51, George Dunlap wrote: >> > >> >> A more practical requirement for a feature with "Supported" status is >> >> that _either_: >> >> >> >> * The feature is t

Re: [Xen-devel] Proposal: Feature Maturity Lifecycle

2015-06-16 Thread Wei Liu
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 05:34:08PM +0100, Lars Kurth wrote: > > > On 15 Jun 2015, at 15:51, George Dunlap wrote: > > > >> A more practical requirement for a feature with "Supported" status is > >> that _either_: > >> > >> * The feature is tested automatically. > >> > >> * At least once during

Re: [Xen-devel] Proposal: Feature Maturity Lifecycle

2015-06-15 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 15 Jun 2015, at 15:51, George Dunlap wrote: > >> A more practical requirement for a feature with "Supported" status is >> that _either_: >> >> * The feature is tested automatically. >> >> * At least once during each release freeze, the feature's >> maintainers produce a test report (by

Re: [Xen-devel] Proposal: Feature Maturity Lifecycle

2015-06-15 Thread George Dunlap
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > George Dunlap writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Proposal: Feature Maturity Lifecycle"): >> So if we accept these definitions, it would would officially make >> adding functionality to osstest a requirement for ever

Re: [Xen-devel] Proposal: Feature Maturity Lifecycle

2015-06-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Lars Kurth writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Proposal: Feature Maturity Lifecycle"): > PCI passthrough is interesting, because am not convinced we do > handle security issues for it. Or are we? We do handle PCI passthrough security issues, yes. A large proportion of XSAs are due to PCI p

Re: [Xen-devel] Proposal: Feature Maturity Lifecycle

2015-06-15 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 15 Jun 2015, at 13:31, Ian Jackson wrote: > > George Dunlap writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Proposal: Feature Maturity Lifecycle"): >> So if we accept these definitions, it would would officially make >> adding functionality to osstest a requirement for everybody &g

Re: [Xen-devel] Proposal: Feature Maturity Lifecycle

2015-06-15 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 15 Jun 2015, at 12:26, George Dunlap wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Lars Kurth wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> >> 4. Supported >>- Intended functionality is fully implemented >>- Feature is *maintained* >>- Feature is *tested* >>- Feature is *sta

Re: [Xen-devel] Proposal: Feature Maturity Lifecycle

2015-06-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Lars Kurth writes ("Re: Proposal: Feature Maturity Lifecycle"): > However, I do also believe that the time evolution view in > http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Release_Features is valuable and > it is probably too hard to do this in an automated fashion, at least > initially. So my of

Re: [Xen-devel] Proposal: Feature Maturity Lifecycle

2015-06-15 Thread Ian Jackson
George Dunlap writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Proposal: Feature Maturity Lifecycle"): > So if we accept these definitions, it would would officially make > adding functionality to osstest a requirement for everybody > contributing new functionality. I think at the moment, that

Re: [Xen-devel] Proposal: Feature Maturity Lifecycle

2015-06-15 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 15 Jun 2015, at 13:21, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Lars Kurth writes ("Proposal: Feature Maturity Lifecycle"): >> following up from >> http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-06/msg01775.html I >> wanted to propose the following convention related to feature classification >>

Re: [Xen-devel] Proposal: Feature Maturity Lifecycle

2015-06-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Lars Kurth writes ("Proposal: Feature Maturity Lifecycle"): > following up from > http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-06/msg01775.html I > wanted to propose the following convention related to feature classification > as a proposal for discussion. I tried to pretty much desc

Re: [Xen-devel] Proposal: Feature Maturity Lifecycle

2015-06-15 Thread George Dunlap
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Lars Kurth wrote: > Hi all, > > following up from > http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-06/msg01775.html I > wanted to propose the following convention related to feature classification > as a proposal for discussion. I tried to pretty much

[Xen-devel] Proposal: Feature Maturity Lifecycle

2015-06-12 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, following up from http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-06/msg01775.html I wanted to propose the following convention related to feature classification as a proposal for discussion. I tried to pretty much describe what we do now and hope my understanding is correct.