Other projects have long switched to xz and/or lzip.
Tidy things some as well: With the removal of qemu from the tarball,
intermediately extracting the tarball again has become wasteful. Drop
that. Invoke compressors using asynchronous lists, to reduce overall
latency. Drop the -v option from the (previously implicit) gzip
invocation.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Tested-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
In preparation to no longer support qemu-traditional (including
qemu-stubdom), remove it from documentation.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@vates.tech>
For many major releases I've been updating ./MAINTAINERS _after_ the
respective branch was handed over to me. That update, however, is
relevant not only from the .1 minor release onwards, but right from the
.0 release. Hence it ought to be done as one of the last things before
tagging the tree for the new major release.
See the seemingly unrelated parts (as far as the commit subject goes) of
e.g. 9d465658b4 ("update Xen version to 4.20.1-pre") for an example.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Explain how the banner in README is generated and take the opportunity
to mention what it should look like for RC.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Our releases look to flip-flop between keeping or discarding the date
and title of the referenced qemu-trad commit. I think with the hash
replaced by a tag, the commit's date and title would better also be
purged.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>
And update the release technician checklist to mention to edit it.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>
Release-Acked-by: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>
In particular, say clearly that X.Y-unstable should be thus, not
X.Y.0-unstable.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
In order to have a link to the release notes in the feature list
generated from SUPPORT.md add that link in the "Release Support"
section of that file.
The real link needs to be adapted when the version is being released.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Split out the required work for the new and old branches and be more
specific about what is to be done. In the RT checklist, reformat and
expand the "turn off debug" instructions.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Preparing a real release, not just an RC, involves making commits.
Typically, those will be on staging-$x. The tag will refer to them,
and the checklist already says to push them to xenbits.
But if the *branch* is not pushed, then people who just "git fetch"
won't get the tag because it refers to commits they don't have.
(Because of the strange rules git has about tag fetching.)
Worse, the same may be true of people who "git clone".
And anyway, those commits *should* be fed to staging-$x.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
The old instructions were obsolete. Here are the details I used when
branching for 4.10.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Clarify what is expected of the release technician for SUPPORT.md: fix
the version number field. The support dates will be set by the
release manageer.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
This contains instructions and shell runes for the Release Technician,
who is the person doing the technical admin to construct the release,
fork branches, make tags and tarballs, etc.
Rename it to make this clearer.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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