On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 6:12 PM George Dunlap <dunlapg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hey all, > > This mail has been a long time in coming, but with the upcoming > expiration of security support for Xen 4.8, it's time to start thinking > about what our update policy will be for the Xen packages in general. > > Citrix is committed to officially supporting one Xen version at a time > through the CentOS Virt SIG. (Others in the community are welcome to > support others.) But we'd like input as to which version the community > would like to be supported at any one time. > > Please express your opinion on each option by replying as follows: > -2: This is a bad idea, and I would argue against this > -1: I'm not happy with this, but I wouldn't argue against this. > 0: No opinion. > 1: I'm happy with this, but I wouldn't argue for it. > 2: This is a great idea, and I'd argue for it. > > There are several possible options: > > 1. Always support the newest option. This means we get all the newest > features from Xen in the Virt SIG by default; but also means we get all > the newest bugs. > > 1a. Always support the newest option once it has at least one point > release. This balances the newness with a bit of extra testing. > > 1b. Always support the second-to-newest version (e.g., when 4.13 comes > out, switch to 4.12.x) > > 2. Always support the oldest security-supported version. This means we > get the most stable version of Xen; but it does mean it is several years > behind as far as features go. It also means that further bugfixes do > not happen automatically, and further bugs found will need to be > > 3. Always support the oldest fully-supported version. Reasonably > stable, reasonably old, still gets bugfixes. > > 4. Support a version until it's out of security support, then jump to > the newest version. This minimizes the number of upgrades required > (although may make each upgrade more painful). > > 4a. Support a version until it's out of full support, then jump to the > newest version. So the voting results look sort of like this: 1: 0, -2 1a: 1, -1 1b: 1, 2 -> 1 or 1a or 1b: +2 2: 0, -2 3: 0, 2 4: 0, -1, -1 4a: 0, -2, -1 Meaning 1b, "Always support the second-to-newest version" seems to be the best fit. Since a 4.13 release is imminent, I think we'll probably switch to 4.12 as the default / main supported release once that's out, and then update every release. -George _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
