Its time to plan the Xen 4.12 release dates. There have been concerns with the schedule of 6 months between releases, as this scheme is leading to too many supported versions of Xen at a time. The needed resources to backport bug fixes and security fixes as well as doing the tests for all those releases are a limiting factor to push out the current main release as well as point releases on time.
After some discussions at the Xen developer summit, on xen-devel and between the committers a slightly longer release cycle of 8 or 9 months was suggested. 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. Having only 3 possible times in the year for a release will make it easier to avoid major holiday seasons. In case there is no objection I'm planning Xen 4.12 with: * Last posting date: December 14th, 2018 * Hard code freeze: January 11th, 2019 * Release: March 7th, 2019 Release of Xen 4.13 would then be early November 2019, 4.14 at early July 2020. Juergen _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
