[dpdk-web] [PATCH] add stable and LTS release plan
Yuanhan Liu
yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com
Tue Feb 28 08:02:29 CET 2017
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 10:42:55AM +0000, Mcnamara, John wrote:
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com]
> > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 10:00 AM
> > To: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com>; Mcnamara, John
> > <john.mcnamara at intel.com>
> > Cc: web at dpdk.org; Liu, Yu Y <yu.y.liu at intel.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] add stable and LTS release plan
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sorry there was no feedback on this patch.
> >
> > 2017-01-23 20:10, Yuanhan Liu:
> > > Cc: John McNamara <john.mcnamara at intel.com>
> > > Cc: Yu Liu <yu.y.liu at intel.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com>
> > > ---
> > >
> > > I made it in rush, meaning there are huge room for improvements
> > > about this short update :)
> > >
> > > Another thought from me is to link the detailed stable/LTS doc
> > > from John, when it's merged.
> >
> > It is merged: http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/contributing/stable.html
Good. I could make a v2 to point it.
> > > + <h3 id="stable">Stable and LTS release</h3>
> > > + <p>A new release will be made about every 3 months, shortly (about 3
> > > + weeks) after an upstream release is made. For example, v16.11.1 will
> > > + be released shortly after v17.02 is released.
> > > + <p>For a stable release, normally, there is only one such release.
> > > + While for a LTS release, which has longer maintainance (2 years),
> > > + there are more releases (.2, .3, etc) following.
> >
> > John, any opinion or rewording for this text?
>
> The wording id fine. The only thing is that "will be released" is in the
> future tense and 16.11.1 is due to be release. So it may be better as
> below. Also s/maintainance/maintenance/
>
>
> <h3 id="stable">Stable and LTS release</h3>
> <p>A new stable release will be made about every 3 months, shortly (around
> 3 weeks) after an upstream release has been made. For example, v16.11.1
> was released shortly after v17.02.
> <p>In general, there will only be one such release for a stable release.
> For an LTS release, which has a longer maintenance period (2 years)
> there will be several releases (.2, .3, etc.).
Thanks, John!
> >
> > > <h3 id="dates">Scheduling</h3>
> >
> > I think we should publish the dates for the next releases here.
>
> Agreed. Just add 3 weeks to the other release dates as a guidance.
Okay.
And I think we still miss one thing: we may need one new section to
tell which version is a LTS. Any idea?
--yliu
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