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auth=pass smtp.auth=CUSA124A263 smtp.mailfrom=ktraynor@redhat.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org On 15/11/2021 14:58, 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? > > Someone else might comment if they spot something, but to me looks ok for RH distro and OVS project. RH distro is also using DPDK .11 who's release date is not changing. (+cc Timothy/Flavio) For OVS project, it only integrates DPDK .11 release too and aims to do that by EOY to make the next OVS release. DPDK stable releases are integrated into older OVS branches when available. I don't think older OVS branch releases have a strict release schedule and having the latest stable DPDK release is not a blocker anyway. (+cc Ilya/Ian/ovs-discuss)