Re: [Xen-devel] Building Xen Test Days into the conclusion of the Xen 4.3 release cycle

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 03:53:01PM +0100, jacek burghardt wrote:
> This sounds like great idea. What xen needs more clarification on bugs 
> reporting, I had experienced many bugs with xen unstable lately and I don't 
> know if anyone cares to fix the issues and if anyone is even running testing 
> unstable and if they experience same issues. HVM recently stop providing 
> network (at least with e1000 emulation   )unless xen drivers are installed 
> and  freenas does not boot up on xen and does not have network connection
> 
> 

Thanks for your help with testing Xen unstable. It is not that we don't
care about fixing problems, but sometimes we would like to see more
concrete logs / figures so that we can identify the genuine causes.

http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Reporting_Bugs_against_Xen could help we
interact more efficient.


Wei.

> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Lars Kurth 
> <lars.kurth@xxxxxxx<mailto:lars.kurth@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I wanted to follow up on George's e-mail (Xen 4.3 development update CODE 
> FREEZE at 
> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-04/msg02142.html). One way 
> we can facilitate the goal of
> 
>  1. Have a bug-free 4.3 release
> 
> ... is to build in some Test Days into the coming weeks. This worked well for 
> Xen 4.2 RC2 as well as XCP 1.6. What we do need though is a good set of test 
> instructions for Xen 4.3 : examples for last time round were
> - http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_4.2_RC2_test_instructions
> - http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XCP_1.6_test_instructions
> We have a document day coming up next Monday, which would be an ideal day to 
> put together Xen 4.3 RC test intrstructions. I remember we got a lot of test 
> coverage for 4.2 RC2 as well as XCP 1.6.
> 
> Having a predictable schedule around RC's would also help. It appears to me 
> that maybe one test day every other week starting from the first RC (planned 
> for May 6th would work) ... we could do the test day 1-2 days after the 
> planned RC's to provide for a buffer should an RC slip.
> 
> That would give us dates for Xen Test Days for May 8, May 22 (not clashing 
> with Hackathon), June 5 (with RC's planned 2 days before).
> 
> Views? Should I start announcing the dates and promote the Test Days? If so, 
> I need some commitment on getting good Test instructions as well as a good 
> sense that RC's are possible for these dates. If so, I would like to announce 
> these by the end of this week.
> 
> Regards
> Lars
> 
> 
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