It should say 2.3. Thanks for pointing out the error. I sent out a fix for review.
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 06:39:03PM +0900, Kentaro Ebisawa wrote: > Hi, > > So should we fix the FAQ to say "The current LTS release is 2.3.x." ? > Or are both 1.9.x and 2.3.x currently in LTS ? > > -- > Kentaro Ebisawa <ebike...@gmail.com> > > On 2014/12/11 7:25, Justin Pettit wrote: > >>On Dec 9, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Mark Haywood <mark.hayw...@oracle.com> wrote: > >> > >>On 12/8/14, 2:02 AM, Justin Pettit wrote: > >>>>On Dec 7, 2014, at 5:44 PM, Mark Haywood <mark.hayw...@oracle.com> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>The FAQ says that there are usually several long-term support releases a > >>>>year. What determines when an LTS is released and when would there be > >>>>another one taking the place of 2.3.0? > >>>The LTS releases happen as critical bug fixes are fixed or every few > >>>months otherwise. We're going to try to introduce more regularity with a > >>>new QA process that is in the early planning stages. > >>So, I think you this means 2.3.1 might be released as bug fixes require or > >>possibly in a few months as a mechanism to release a collection of > >>non-critical bug fixes? > >Correct. In fact, we already released 2.3.1: > > > > http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/announce/2014-December/000071.html > > > >>>As for when new LTS branches are chosen, that's less predictable. In the > >>>past we tried to do them roughly once a year, but we made so many > >>>fundamental architectural changes between 1.10 and 2.2 that we > >>>deliberately locked 1.9 as the LTS until 2.3. I don't expect that we'll > >>>need to do that again, so there should be a more regular cadence between > >>>LTSs. > >>And this means a new branch, say 2.4 maybe, would possibly be released in > >>about a year? > >2.4 will likely be released early in the first quarter of 2015. However, > >2.4 will not be an LTS. Some later version of OVS will be LTS, which will > >likely be a year or so from now. Put another way, not every "y" in a > >"x.y.z" version is LTS. > > > >--Justin > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >discuss mailing list > >discuss@openvswitch.org > >http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > discuss@openvswitch.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
