[dpdk-stable] Stable Tree coming to life

[Mcnamara, John]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: stable [mailto:stable-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Christian
> Ehrhardt
> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2016 10:16 AM
> To: stable at dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-stable] Stable Tree coming to life
> 
> Hi,
> first of all thank you all so much. It is great to see the stable tree
> finally getting patches.
> 
> I wanted to clarify one thing though. I know it was discussed initially
> but I haven't found the consensus and it didn't get to a doc file that I'd
> have found either.

Hi,

The latest draft of the Stable/LTS doc is here:

    http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/044848.html




> 
> Will the stable tree just hold a continues series of fixes on top of DPDK
> (16.07 in the current case)?
> Or will there be "releases" of the stable tree which are considered more
> tested?
> Like releasing 16.07.1 along 16.11 or such?


The parts about Testing and Releasing are reproduced here:


Testing
-------

Stable and LTS releases should be tested before release/tagging.

Intel will provide validation engineers to test the 16.07 Stable Release and
the initial LTS tree. Other community members should provide testing for other
stable releases.

The validation will consist of compilation testing on the range of OSes
supported by the master release and functional/performance testing on the
current major/LTS release of the following OSes:

* Ubuntu
* RHEL
* SuSE
* FreeBSD


Releasing
---------

A Stable Release will be released by:

* Tagging the release with YY.MM.nn (year, month, number) or similar.
* Uploading a tarball of the release to dpdk.org.
* Sending an announcement to the <announce at dpdk.org> list.