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Re: [Xen-devel] Commit moratorium for branching 4.7



On 07/06/16 15:26, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 07.06.16 at 15:55, <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Ian Jackson writes ("Commit moratorium for branching 4.7"):
>>> At Wei's request, I am starting to branch the tree, so that
>>> xen-unstable can diverge from the *-4.7 preparation branches.
>>>
>>> Please don't commit anything until I'm done, which will be later
>>> today.
>>
>> I have now finished this branching process.  Please let me know of any
>> anomalies.  I have applied the patch below to xen.git#staging, to
>> (from a technical point of view) open Xen 4.8.
>>
>> I'm not sure we have made a community decision about the terms under
>> which patches may be committed to the newly-open 4.8 (and who is
>> responsible for porting bug fixes from 4.7 to 4.8 or vice versa).
>> Perhaps I missed the email.  I don't think the stable tree maintainers
>> want to take over 4.7 yet.  So until that is settled, probably nothing
>> substantial should be committed to 4.8.
>>
>> Commits for 4.7 should now go to xen.git#staging-4.7, on the same
>> terms as before.  (Ie, with Wei's approval.)
> 
> Perhaps we can use the same model as I think we used last time,
> with the person committing to unstable being responsible to also
> put things applicable to 4.7 there? And with that declare the tree
> open again for any changes not deemed likely to complicate
> eventual backports to 4.7?

+1

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