On 08.01.2024 15:37, Oleksii wrote: > On Thu, 2024-01-04 at 13:52 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 02.01.2024 17:59, Oleksii wrote: >>> I'd like to propose the release schedule for Xen 4.19. >>> >>> Based on the previous release schedules [1] and [2], it seems the >>> next >>> release date should be on Wednesday, July 10, 2024: >>> >>> ** Proposed option: Wed Jul 10, 2024 ** >>> (+9 months from Xen 4.18 release) >> >> Hmm, aren't we intending to be on a 8 month cadence? > Considering that in July, there will be the Xen Developer Summit, we > can aim for an 8-month cadence.
July? Iirc I read June in the announcement. > However, in the Xen release document, there was mention of a discussion > [1] about cadence: > "With 18 months of full support and 36 months of security support, the > number of concurrent supported releases will be the same with either 8 > or 9 months release cycles, so I have chosen an 8-month cycle for now." > > I interpreted this as either an 8 or 9-month cycle, and it's not > strict. If there's a strict requirement for a specific duration, I'll > resend the Release Schedule Proposal. I'm not sure about "strict". Yet ... > [1] https://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2018-07/msg02240.html ... this very mail worked out how overlap with larger holiday ranges could be minimized not only for a single release, but for any as long as the cadence is followed. Iirc this works out better with 8 months (as kind of to be expected, as then there are only 3 variants, whereas with 9 months it would be 4 of them). Just to clarify, personally I'm fine with 9 months or even longer, but it seemed to me that we had settled on 8. Jan
