On Thu, 2024-07-04 at 11:51 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 04/07/2024 11:37 am, Oleksii wrote:
> > On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 15:19 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > > Minimum fixes to rebuild the containers, following the HEREDOC
> > > problems.
> > >
> > > Unrelated to the HEREDOC problems, Archlinux and CentOS 7 need
> > > aditional
> > > chagnes to rebuild.
> > >
> > > There will be subsequent work to make some improvements to CI for
> > > 4.19, so in
> > > particular we're testing with up-to-date LTS distros.
> > If we really want to test with up-to-date LTS distros in 4.19 then
> > it
> > probably make sense to postpone release date to July 29 to be sure
> > that
> > everything is okay. July 29 is still fit in our 2 times release
> > cycle
> > per year.
>
> Testing with up-to-date distros is trivial, when I can rebuild the
> containers.
>
> I've already got "CI: Fixes, part 2" and "part 3" in progress, hoping
> to
> post today, all for 4.19.
>
> What matters, specifically for 4.19 at this point, is that we put in
> place testing such that {staging,stable}-4.19 branches are tested
> suitably after release.
>
> It would be really embarrassing for the Xen 4.19 release if it didn't
> work with e.g. Ubuntu Noble.
Agree, it makes sense.
Release-Acked-by: Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@gmail.com>
~ Oleksii