> On Dec 9, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Mark Haywood <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 12/8/14, 2:02 AM, Justin Pettit wrote:
>>> On Dec 7, 2014, at 5:44 PM, Mark Haywood <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> The FAQ says that there are usually several long-term support releases a
>>> year. What determines when an LTS is released and when would there be
>>> another one taking the place of 2.3.0?
>> The LTS releases happen as critical bug fixes are fixed or every few months
>> otherwise. We're going to try to introduce more regularity with a new QA
>> process that is in the early planning stages.
>
> So, I think you this means 2.3.1 might be released as bug fixes require or
> possibly in a few months as a mechanism to release a collection of
> non-critical bug fixes?
Correct. In fact, we already released 2.3.1:
http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/announce/2014-December/000071.html
>> As for when new LTS branches are chosen, that's less predictable. In the
>> past we tried to do them roughly once a year, but we made so many
>> fundamental architectural changes between 1.10 and 2.2 that we deliberately
>> locked 1.9 as the LTS until 2.3. I don't expect that we'll need to do that
>> again, so there should be a more regular cadence between LTSs.
>
> And this means a new branch, say 2.4 maybe, would possibly be released in
> about a year?
2.4 will likely be released early in the first quarter of 2015. However, 2.4
will not be an LTS. Some later version of OVS will be LTS, which will likely
be a year or so from now. Put another way, not every "y" in a "x.y.z" version
is LTS.
--Justin
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