release schedule change proposal

[Asaf Penso]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jerin Jacob <jerinjacobk at gmail.com>
>Sent: Monday, November 15, 2021 5:39 PM
>To: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
>Cc: NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>; dpdk-dev
><dev at dpdk.org>; users at dpdk.org
>Subject: Re: release schedule change proposal
>
>On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 8:42 PM Luca Boccassi <bluca at 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