Hi Ian, > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Jackson <[email protected]> > Subject: Release checklist and qemu-xen-traditional > > (Adding xen-devel to the CC list.)
Thank you for doing this, it would be great to have the answer below logged in the mailing list. > > Hi, Henry. Pleased to "meet" you. To answer your questions: > > > > > (1) Why do the instructions say to branch that repo? > > > > (2) Where can we find this repo? > > > > (3) Is this repo used anywhere since the 4.16 release? > > > > (4) Is this repo used elsewhere in the release process? > > This repo is this one. I think it is still used during some builds. > See this line in Config.mk: > > QEMU_TRADITIONAL_URL ?= http://xenbits.xen.org/git-http/qemu-xen- > traditional.git > > It is very old and we have been slowly deprecating it. (The copy on > my workstation was called qemu-iwj.git for historical reasons which > aren't relevant, but that's how that got into the checklist.) > > The release checklist will also instruct the release technician to > update the pinning in Config.mk to the tag. For example, Config.mk in > RELEASE-4.16.0 says this: > > QEMU_TRADITIONAL_REVISION ?= xen-4.16.0 > > This needs to be updated so that people who get 4.16 don't get any > changes that are made to the "master" branch in qemu-xen-traditional. > The same will be true for 4.17, if it qemu-xen-traditional hasn't > been completely abolished there yet. Great thanks for your detailed explanation! I checked yesterday's branching commit done by Julien [1] and seeing the qemu-xen-traditional tags [2] and qemu-xen tags [3], I think Julien did everything correctly (Thanks Julien!) :) Although I am wondering if the instruction about qemu-iwj.git here: ``` * make branch in qemu-iwj.git git-branch $v-testing master ``` would be duplicated with instructions here: ``` # make branches in xenbits.xen.org qemus ssh [email protected] cd ~/git/qemu-xen.git git branch staging-$v staging git branch stable-$v master cd ~/git/qemu-xen-traditional.git git branch stable-$v master ``` [1] https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commit;h=f51079b5d87b39e79fe499ed818d50d856bc9c35 [2] https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=qemu-xen-traditional.git;a=summary [3] https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=qemu-xen.git;a=summary Kind regards, Henry > > > > These instructons relate to my local clone of qemu-xen-traditional, > > > and will need adjustment. > > > > Thanks for your reply! It would be good for you to clarify what adjustments > > we need to do. That said, I completely understand that you are quite busy > > today, so... > > A clone of qemu-xen-traditional ought to do for this. My tree here, > rescued from my old Citrix workstation, has this for the "origin" > remote: > xenbits.xen.org:/home/xen/git/qemu-xen-traditional.git > > I hope this is helpful. If you want to talk through it some more, > ping me on irc. I'm Diziet on oftc. I usually lurk on #xendevel > (although I fell off at some point and only just rejoined), or you > may send me a private message. > > Regards, > Ian. > > -- > Ian Jackson <[email protected]> These opinions are my own. > > Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, > that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.
