[PATCH v2] doc: update LTS maintenance to 3 years

[Kevin Traynor]

On 23/05/2024 10:15, Xueming Li wrote:
> LGTM
> 
> Acked-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com>
> ________________________________
> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2024 5:12 PM
> To: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>; Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com>
> Cc: NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <thomas at monjalon.net>; dev at dpdk.org <dev at dpdk.org>; david.marchand at redhat.com <david.marchand at redhat.com>; christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>; Xueming Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com>; ferruh.yigit at amd.com <ferruh.yigit at amd.com>; john.mcnamara at intel.com <john.mcnamara at intel.com>; techboard at dpdk.org <techboard at dpdk.org>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] doc: update LTS maintenance to 3 years
> 
> Ping Xueming/Christian,
> 
> Any comment on this, can you ack if you think it's a good idea ?
> 
> On 28/03/2024 10:25, Kevin Traynor wrote:
>> On 28/03/2024 10:01, Luca Boccassi wrote:
>>> On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 at 10:02, Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas at monjalon.net]
>>>>> Sent: Monday, 25 March 2024 00.14
>>>>>
>>>>> 17/01/2024 17:24, Kevin Traynor:
>>>>>> The existing official policy was to maintain LTS releases for 2 years.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 19.11 and 20.11 LTS releases were maintained for 3 years and there was
>>>>>> not significant issues caused by code divergence from main etc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Update the policy to indicate 3 years maintenance for LTS releases, but
>>>>>> note that it depends on community support.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> More opinions, comments or acks?
>>>>
>>>> It is an improvement.
>>>>
>>>> Acked-by: Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com>
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
>>>
>>
>> Xueming/Christian - any comments on this ?
>>
>> If it sounds ok, can you Ack ?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Kevin.
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 

Summarizing the Acks on this patch...

This has Acks from reps from the companies involved with validating LTS
releases, Nvidia (Raslan), Intel (John), Red Hat (Kevin implicit) and
current LTS maintainers Luca, Xueming, Kevin.

It has also has an Ack from Morten and as it is a policy change, it was
approved by the techboard at the last meeting.

thanks,
Kevin.