>-----Original Message----- >From: Jerin Jacob <jerinjac...@gmail.com> >Sent: Monday, November 15, 2021 5:39 PM >To: Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> >Cc: NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>; dpdk-dev ><dev@dpdk.org>; us...@dpdk.org >Subject: Re: release schedule change proposal > >On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 8:42 PM Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> wrote: >> >> On Mon, 2021-11-15 at 15:58 +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: >> > For the last 5 years, DPDK was doing 4 releases per year, in >> > February, May, August and November (the LTS one): >> > .02 .05 .08 .11 (LTS) >> > >> > This schedule has multiple issues: >> > - clash with China's Spring Festival >> > - too many rushes, impacting maintainers & testers >> > - not much buffer, impacting proposal period >> > >> > I propose to switch to a new schedule with 3 releases per year: >> > .03 .07 .11 (LTS) > > >+1
+1 > > >> > >> > New LTS branch would start at the same time of the year as before. >> > There would be one less intermediate release during spring/summer: >> > .05 and .08 intermediate releases would become a single .07. >> > I think it has almost no impact for the users. >> > This change could be done starting next year. >> > >> > In details, this is how we could extend some milestones: >> > >> > ideal schedule so far (in 13 weeks): >> > proposal deadline: 4 >> > rc1 - API freeze: 5 >> > rc2 - PMD features freeze: 2 >> > rc3 - app features freeze: 1 >> > rc4 - last chance to fix: 1 >> > release: 0 >> > >> > proposed schedule (in 17 weeks): >> > proposal deadline: 4 >> > rc1 - API freeze: 7 >> > rc2 - PMD features freeze: 3 >> > rc3 - app features freeze: 1 >> > rc4 - more fixes: 1 >> > rc5 - last chance buffer: 1 >> > release: 0 >> > >> > Opinions? >> >> We upload only LTS releases to Debian/Ubuntu, so as long as those stay >> the same as it is proposed here, no problem for us. >> >> -- >> Kind regards, >> Luca Boccassi
