On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 05:45:26PM -0600, Tyler Hicks (Microsoft) wrote: > On 2022-10-29 08:28:55, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 02:40:19PM -0500, Tyler Hicks (Microsoft) wrote: > > > On 2022-10-20 10:26:06, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 08:25:35AM +0900, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > I saw that the projected EOL of LTS 5.15 is Oct 2023. > > > > > How likely is it that the date will be extended? I'm guessing it's > > > > > pretty likely, given that Android uses it. > > > > > > > > Android is the only user that has talked to me about this kernel > > > > version so far. Please see: > > > > http://kroah.com/log/blog/2021/02/03/helping-out-with-lts-kernel-releases/ > > > > for what I require in order to keep an LTS kernel going longer than 2 > > > > years. > > > > > > Microsoft is also interested in a longer lifetime for v5.15 LTS. An > > > additional year should meet our needs. > > > > Wonderful, thanks for letting us know. > > > > > We are aware of your "Helping Out ..." blog post and have been making > > > improvements to be of more assistance. Kelsey and Allen (Cc'ed) have > > > been doing -rc testing of v5.15 -rc releases and reporting the results > > > to the list, on behalf of Microsoft. Testing of the -rc releases is > > > mostly manual at this point, so we don't get every release tested before > > > the release happens, but we're working on improving our processes and > > > having builds/tests kick off automatically so that you can rely on us > > > even more. We should have a much better system in place to help with > > > testing and reporting by the time Oct 2023 rolls around. :) > > > > Don't you all use kernelci already? Doesn't that fit into your testing > > environment already to make this easier? > > You're right that we provide kernelci resources for the broader > community but we use something different internally. > > > > > And yes, I have seen the testing results, thank you for that. If you > > all want to be added to the initial -rc1 email announcement to help > > trigger any build systems that way, just let me know. > > Thanks. I had planned to watch for new pushes to the linux-stable-rc.git > branches. If that doesn't work for some reason, we'll take you up on the > email offer. Watch out when using that tree, it is rebased all the time and contains intermediate steps before the "real" -rc releases happen. It is there for systems that can not handle quilt series. good luck! greg k-h
