On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 8:22 PM Mark Michelson <mmich...@redhat.com> wrote:
> The current state of development in OVN has resulted in many discussions > happening about how things should change. The main points of the > discussions have been: > > * Recent releases have been much more bare than releases made two or > three years ago. > * Supporting as many versions of OVN as we have is a maintenance burden. > * It is not well-defined what the lifetime of non-LTS OVN versions is. > * We rarely, if ever, make sub-releases of released OVN versions, so it > sometimes feels like backporting bugfixes is pointless. > * It is not always clear as a maintainer which branches should receive > backports of fixes. > > This set of changes aims to address these issues, while also correcting > some existing errors in the documentation. > > The reason for the large number of patches is to allow for easy > discussion about each aspect of the change. This can allow for us to > reach conclusions for certain aspects and get them integrated into the > documentation while allowing for other aspects to continue to be fleshed > out. > > Mark Michelson (9): > release-process: Use more accurate example releases. > release-process: Switch to two releases per year. > release-policy: Change "release" to "version" in LTS section. > release-process: State release policy for LTS versions. > release-process: Add section for standard-term support releases. > release-policy: Document when versions receive new releases. > backporting-patches: Change "master" to "main". > backporting-patches: Fix inaccuracies in the document. > backporting-patches: Add concrete policy for where backports go. > > .../contributing/backporting-patches.rst | 86 +++++++++---------- > Documentation/internals/release-process.rst | 72 ++++++++++------ > 2 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.39.2 > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > d...@openvswitch.org > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev > > The whole series looks good, thanks. Reviewed-by: Ales Musil <amu...@redhat.com> -- Ales Musil Senior Software Engineer - OVN Core Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com> amu...@redhat.com IM: amusil <https://red.ht/sig> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
