On 4/18/2018 10:14 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 18/04/2018 11:05, Ferruh Yigit: >> On 4/11/2018 12:28 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: >>> - <p>Typically a new stable release version follows a mainline release >>> - by 1-2 weeks, depending on the test results. >>> + <p>The first stable release (.1) of a branch should follow >>> + its mainline release (.0) by at least two months, >>> + after the first release candidate (-rc1) of the next branch. >> >> Hi Thomas, >> >> What this change suggest? To be able to backport patches from rc1? > > Yes, it is the proposal we discussed earlier. > We can wait one week after RC1 to get some validation confirmation. > Do you agree?
This has been discussed in tech-board, what I remember the decision was to wait the release to backport patches into stable tree.
