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From: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: dpdk-dev <dev@dpdk.org>,
	users@dpdk.org,  David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
	Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	 Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>,
	Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>,
	 Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj@marvell.com>,
	Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>,
	 Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>,
	Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>,
	Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>,
	Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>,
	 Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>,
	 "Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>,
	Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>,
	 Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>,
	Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>,
	Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: release schedule change proposal
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 20:08:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACZ4nhs8iEC2-wnMiSQvXZQ+PMKnNCk6x82PdMb_4YjZ4-6ELQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5786413.XMpytKYiJR@thomas>

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 6:58 AM 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)
>
> 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
+1

>
> Opinions?
>
>

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-18  4:08 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
2021-11-15 17:15   ` Shepard Siegel
2021-11-18  4:08 ` Ajit Khaparde [this message]

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