Xen Project 4.9 Acknowledgements
Note that the acknowledgements have been created based on 4.9.0-rc7, which is expected to be the final RC for Xen 4.9.0 (with the exception of some security fixes under embargo). If there is another release candidate, data needs to be updated.
Overview
As we have made significant changes to the xen source tree structure, we will count acknowledgements in line with RFC Xen 4.6 Acknowledgements.
The following table compares Xen 4.8 with Xen 4.9. We also cover changes to Xen only components in Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and QEMU in the "Drivers and Devices" column, which are primarily made by Xen Project developers. Note that the number is not part of the 4.9 Hypervisor Total.
| Attribute | 4.8 Hypervisor Total [ 1 ] | 4.9 Hypervisor Total [ 1 ] | 4.9 Hypervisor Core[ 2 ] | 4.9 Hypervisor Other [ 3 ] | Drivers and Devices (other projects)[ 4 ] |
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| Release Cycle | 161 days 124 dev window/days[ 6 ] 5.3 months |
176 days [ 7 ]</sup 128 dev window/days[ 6 ] 5.9 months |
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| Development Velocity | |||||
| Changesets | 1245 | 1500 (+17.0%) | 1275 | 225 | TBD |
| Series (=Features) [ 5 ] | 575 | 470 (-22.3%) | |||
| Average Size of Feature | 2.17 | 3.19 (+32%) | |||
| Changes / Day | 7.7 | 8.5 (+8.7%) | |||
| Changes / Dev Day [ 6 ] | 10.0 | 11.7 (+14.7%) | |||
| Features / Day [ 5 ] | 3.6 | 2.7 (-34.8%) | |||
| Code Review Statistics | |||||
| Review Comments [ 5 ] | 6960 | 7374 (+5.6%) | |||
| Review Comments / Day [ 5 ] | 43.6 | 41.9 (-4.1%) | |||
| Comments / Series [ 5 ] | 11.9 | 15.7 (+24.2%) | |||
| Code Churn | |||||
| Lines Added | 78899 | 80728 | 75763 | 4965 | TBD |
| Lines Removed | 62325 | 46291 | 44726 | 1565 | TBD |
| Engagement | |||||
| Individuals | 68 | 84 | 82 | 10 | TBD |
| Employers [ 8 ] | 25 | 28 | 27 | 6 | TBD |
4.9 Hypervisor Only Code Contributions [ 2 ]
Breakdown by Individual
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4.9 Hypervisor Related Code Contributions [ 3 ]
Breakdown by Individual
Note that the table below does not cover contributions to Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, QEMU, libvirt and other related projects. It lists contributors to mini-os (formerly part of xen.git), osstest (our test code and test cases), raisin (a deployment and test tool), xtf.git and livepatch-build-tools (tools to builld livepatch payloads).
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Code Contributions to Xen Related Drivers and Devices in Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD [ 4 ]
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4.9 Hypervisor Reviewers [ 5 ]
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Footnotes
[ 1 ] Includes the following repos: xen, mini-os, osstest, raisin, livepatch-build-tools, xtf
[ 2 ] Includes the following repos: xen
[ 3 ] Includes the following repos: mini-os, osstest, raisin, livepatch-build-tools, xtf
[ 4 ] Includes commits to the following Xen specific directories of the following upstream projects: linux: arch/*/xen/ arch/*/include/asm/xen/ drivers/xen/ drivers/*/*xen* include/xen/ arch/*/pci/*xen* ; netbsd: sys/arch/xen; freebsd: sys/dev/xen/ sys/x86/xen sys/xen/; qemu: xen* hw/i386/xen hw/xenpv hw/*/xen* hw/xen include/*/xen*, xen windows pv drivers
[ 5 ] This data was extracted from the Xen Project Code Review Dashboard
[ 6 ] These are the days/months during which we were not in code freeze
[ 7 ] Calculated using 4.9.0-rc7
[ 8 ] Only known employers are used. Unknown employers were discounted. Note that in [1] that clean-up did not happen
