On Mon, 2021-11-15 at 15:58 +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > For the last 5 years, DPDK was doing 4 releases per year, > in February, May, August and November (the LTS one): > .02 .05 .08 .11 (LTS) > > This schedule has multiple issues: > - clash with China's Spring Festival > - too many rushes, impacting maintainers & testers > - not much buffer, impacting proposal period > > I propose to switch to a new schedule with 3 releases per year: > .03 .07 .11 (LTS) > > New LTS branch would start at the same time of the year as before. > There would be one less intermediate release during spring/summer: > .05 and .08 intermediate releases would become a single .07. > I think it has almost no impact for the users. > This change could be done starting next year. > > In details, this is how we could extend some milestones: > > ideal schedule so far (in 13 weeks): > proposal deadline: 4 > rc1 - API freeze: 5 > rc2 - PMD features freeze: 2 > rc3 - app features freeze: 1 > rc4 - last chance to fix: 1 > release: 0 > > proposed schedule (in 17 weeks): > proposal deadline: 4 > rc1 - API freeze: 7 > rc2 - PMD features freeze: 3 > rc3 - app features freeze: 1 > rc4 - more fixes: 1 > rc5 - last chance buffer: 1 > release: 0 > > Opinions?
We upload only LTS releases to Debian/Ubuntu, so as long as those stay the same as it is proposed here, no problem for us. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
