[PATCH 2/2] Extend 19.11.x support period to 3 years

[Ali Alnubani]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2021 9:55 AM
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Extend 19.11.x support period to 3 years
> 
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 5:16 PM Mcnamara, John
> <john.mcnamara at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com
> <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> > > Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2021 10:18 AM
> > > Cc: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> > > Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Extend 19.11.x support period to 3 years
> > >
> > > From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> > >
> > > It was discussed in various places by now, along with the switch of the
> > > main development branch to three per year we also want to extend the
> > > lifetime of the LTS releases.
> >
> > Hi Christian,
> >
> > Zhaoyan and the Intel System Test team agree to test the additional year 3
> releases.
> >
> > John
> >
> > Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara at intel.com>
> 
> @Mcnamara, John - Intel usually submits two test results.
> One like http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-August/033130.html
> And one separately for "Intel(R) Testing with Open vSwitch" like
> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-June/031702.html
> Does the above commitment include both?
> 
> I forgot, I also give my own ok in regard to Canonical testing of
> further 19.11 releases.
> 
> Looking at the usual major test coverage providers we still need an answer
> from:
> - RedHat (like http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-
> September/033218.html)
>   @Pei Zhang ?
> - Nvidia (like http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-
> August/033131.html)
>   @Ali Alnubani ?

Hi Christian,

We will also be reporting our test coverage during the extended support period.

Thanks,
Ali