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We confirmed Konrad Wilk from Oracle as Release Manager for Xen 4.5 : see [http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-04/msg03168.html this e-mail thread]
 
We confirmed Konrad Wilk from Oracle as Release Manager for Xen 4.5 : see [http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-04/msg03168.html this e-mail thread]
   
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== Information about how we manage releases ==
== Draft Roadmap ==
 
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* [http://www.xenproject.org/developers/teams/hypervisor/hypervisor-roadmap.html General Process]
We expect that a draft roadmap will be established at the Xen Project Hackathon in May 2014
 
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* [http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2014/05/08/how-the-hypervisor-team-manages-releases/ How the Hypervisor team manages releases]
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* [http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2014/06/19/release-management-risk-intuition-and-freeze-exceptions/ Release management: Risk, intuition, and freeze exceptions]
   
 
== Roadmap on xen-devel ==
 
== Roadmap on xen-devel ==
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* Our release manager will regularly post an e-mail called '''Xen 4.5 development update''' on the list and that community members respond to it. See
 
* Our release manager will regularly post an e-mail called '''Xen 4.5 development update''' on the list and that community members respond to it. See
 
* [http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-06/msg02597.html Xen 4.5 Development Update (June)]
 
* [http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-06/msg02597.html Xen 4.5 Development Update (June)]
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* [http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-05/msg03247.html Xen 4.5 Development Update (May)]
 
* [http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-05/msg03247.html Xen 4.5 Development Update (May)]
 
* [http://xen.markmail.org/search/?q=%22Xen+4.4+development+update%22 historical 4.4 roadmap discussions]
 
* [http://xen.markmail.org/search/?q=%22Xen+4.4+development+update%22 historical 4.4 roadmap discussions]

Revision as of 12:04, 20 June 2014

Rather than try to predict precisely what will make it into what release (which was something of a disaster last release), I'm just going to borrow a term from the Agile world and call all uncompleted features the "Backlog". I'll still track who is doing what, and when we get close, what state things seem to be in.

Release Manager

We confirmed Konrad Wilk from Oracle as Release Manager for Xen 4.5 : see this e-mail thread

Information about how we manage releases

Roadmap on xen-devel

As in the past, roadmap discussions will mostly happen on the xen-devel mailing list. The convention is that