4.11 branch point

[Chris Johns]

On 18/04/2015 12:06 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> 
> 
> On 4/17/2015 5:11 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I think everything for the 4.11 release is now in the tree. It would be 
>> good to do the branch soon, since the watchdog changes and the FreeBSD 
>> timecounters should probably be not in the release. We can test and 
>> polish for the release in the branch.
>>
> Agreed.  Nothing is really outstanding AFAIK from a patch perspective.
> I still need to run coverage and post reports. We haven't looked at that
> in a while and the changes could have negatively impacted that. That
> can be post-branching.
> 
> Are you including the new timer server implementation you just
> posted as a post-branching merge?
> 
> I would like to do a build and test sweep before we branch. Daniel's
> patch was quite large and I just want to make sure all is OK still.
> But nothing really blocking except a sanity check. All built OK overnight
> and the test runs have been acceptable.
> 
> This is the point at which feedback from real hardware from user's would be
> appreciated but I won't hold a release waiting for any. I will be doing
> a sweep
> on simulators.  Anything additional is a plus.
> 
> I would really like for Chris to be back from holidays before we push
> the button. Just in case. :)
> 

I think the master branch is ready. I think we need to review the wiki
to get a single clear Getting Starting guide.

Chris