[dpdk-web] [PATCH] update stable releases roadmap

[Christian Ehrhardt]

Hi,
Luca made me aware of this - thanks!

In reference to [1], I'd volunteer for 18.05.1

I was not subscribed before this, so I hope replying to the forwarded mail
gets the threading right.

[1]: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/web/2018-March/000615.html


On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 4:16 PM, Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2018-03-09 at 14:36 +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> >
> > ---
> > This is at the same time, a call for volunteer,
> > and a proposed change to shorten the wait for the first stable
> > releases
> > from at least 3 months to 2 months.
> >
> > Let's add this discussion to the agenda of the next techboard
> > meeting.
> > ---
> >  dev/roadmap.html | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> >  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/dev/roadmap.html b/dev/roadmap.html
> > index e6cf640..e40f410 100644
> > --- a/dev/roadmap.html
> > +++ b/dev/roadmap.html
> > @@ -104,6 +104,8 @@
> >               <li>Release: November 2, 2018
> >       </ul>
> >       <h2 id="stable">Stable releases</h2>
> > +     <p>There is a documentation page describing the
> > +     <a href="/doc/guides/contributing/stable.html">guidelines of
> > the stable releases</a>.
> >       <p>Stable point releases follow mainline releases.
> >       <p>After each -rc tag and after the final version, relevant
> > bug fixes get
> >       backported by the stable maintainers into the respective
> > branches in "bursts".
> > @@ -111,8 +113,9 @@
> >       to stable at dpdk.org only (avoiding dev at dpdk.org).
> >       <p>After all the relevant bugfixes have been backported,
> >       regression tests are ran, and if clear, the stable release
> > is announced.
> > -     <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 two months,
> > +     before starting tests of the next mainline release
> > candidates.
> >       <hr>
> >       <div style="overflow-x:auto">
> >       <table>
> > @@ -125,15 +128,39 @@
> >               <tr>
> >                       <td>16.11.6</td>
> >                       <td>May 19, 2018</td>
> > -                     <td>November 2018</td>
> > +                     <td>November 2018 (LTS)</td>
> >                       <td>Luca Boccassi</td>
> >               </tr>
> >               <tr>
> >                       <td>17.11.2</td>
> >                       <td>May 19, 2018</td>
> > -                     <td>November 2019</td>
> > +                     <td>November 2019 (LTS)</td>
> >                       <td>Yuanhan Liu</td>
> >               </tr>
> > +             <tr>
> > +                     <td>18.02.1</td>
> > +                     <td>April 6, 2018</td>
> > +                     <td>June 2018</td>
> > +                     <td>looking for volunteer</td>
> > +             </tr>
> > +             <tr>
> > +                     <td>18.05.1</td>
> > +                     <td>June 29, 2018</td>
> > +                     <td>October 2018</td>
> > +                     <td>looking for volunteer</td>
> > +             </tr>
> > +             <tr>
> > +                     <td>18.08.1</td>
> > +                     <td>October 5, 2018</td>
> > +                     <td>January 2019</td>
> > +                     <td>looking for volunteer</td>
> > +             </tr>
> > +             <tr>
> > +                     <td>18.11.1</td>
> > +                     <td>January 11, 2019</td>
> > +                     <td>November 2020 (LTS)</td>
> > +                     <td>looking for volunteer</td>
> > +             </tr>
> >       </table>
> >       </div>
> >  </section>
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Luca Boccassi




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Christian Ehrhardt
Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd