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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, users@dpdk.org, david.marchand@redhat.com,
	ferruh.yigit@intel.com, andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru,
	qi.z.zhang@intel.com, jerinj@marvell.com, rasland@nvidia.com,
	maxime.coquelin@redhat.com, gakhil@marvell.com, bluca@debian.org,
	ktraynor@redhat.com, bruce.richardson@intel.com, mdr@ashroe.eu,
	konstantin.ananyev@intel.com, olivier.matz@6wind.com,
	honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com, hemant.agrawal@nxp.com,
	aconole@redhat.com, ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: release schedule change proposal
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 08:58:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211115085821.0f89cc96@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5786413.XMpytKYiJR@thomas>

On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:58:15 +0100
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> 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)

This nicely adapts to the natural slowdown due to holidays
in December and August.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-15 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-15 14:58 Thomas Monjalon
2021-11-15 15:11 ` Luca Boccassi
2021-11-15 15:39   ` Jerin Jacob
2021-11-15 16:04     ` Asaf Penso
2021-11-15 16:06 ` Kevin Traynor
2021-11-19 13:48   ` Flavio Leitner
2021-11-19 15:22   ` Ilya Maximets
2021-11-15 16:58 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2021-11-15 17:15   ` Shepard Siegel
2021-11-18  4:08 ` Ajit Khaparde

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