The OVN team has had no concrete policy regarding when releases are made for a given version. In the past, new releases have been made only when something critical has been found, meaning that most bug fixes applied to a given OVN version never end up in a release.
This change proposes a regular release schedule. The most recent branch and the current LTS will receive releases every two months. Other standard-term support branches still under support will have releases made every three months. Signed-off-by: Mark Michelson <[email protected]> --- Documentation/internals/release-process.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/internals/release-process.rst b/Documentation/internals/release-process.rst index 24b5fc060..20f8c7ce6 100644 --- a/Documentation/internals/release-process.rst +++ b/Documentation/internals/release-process.rst @@ -152,6 +152,20 @@ approximate: | T + 6 | Sep 1, Mar 1, ... | Release version x.y.0 | +---------------+---------------------+--------------------------------------+ +Subsequent Releases +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Beyond the .0 release of an OVN version, we will schedule further regular +releases from its development branch. The most recent release branch, as well +as the current LTS branch, will receive new releases every two months. If the +most recent release branch is an LTS branch, then that branch alone will have +releases made every two months. Other standard-term support branches that are +still under support will receive new releases every three months. If for some +reason, no changes occur to a supported OVN branch during a release period, +then no release will be made on that branch for that period. Therefore, there +is no guarantee about the exact number of releases to be expected for any given +OVN version. + Release Calendar ---------------- -- 2.39.2 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
