release schedule change proposal

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:58:15 +0100
Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> 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)

This nicely adapts to the natural slowdown due to holidays
in December and August.