[dpdk-web] [PATCH] add stable and LTS release plan

Yuanhan Liu yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com
Mon Jan 23 13:10:46 CET 2017


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.
---
 dev/roadmap.html | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/dev/roadmap.html b/dev/roadmap.html
index dfd5e41..3964422 100644
--- a/dev/roadmap.html
+++ b/dev/roadmap.html
@@ -91,6 +91,13 @@
 	integration deadline. Otherwise, they will be postponed to the next releases.
 	<p>At the end of the merge window, the first release candidate is out.
 	<p>The last period is 1 month long and is dedicated to bug fixing.
+	<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.
 	<h3 id="dates">Scheduling</h3>
 	<p>16.11
 	<ul>
-- 
1.9.0



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