From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48F6EA0C41; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 05:08:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C744B40687; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 05:08:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-io1-f44.google.com (mail-io1-f44.google.com [209.85.166.44]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E889740395 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 05:08:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-io1-f44.google.com with SMTP id w22so6302042ioa.1 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2021 20:08:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=broadcom.com; s=google; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=KPEIr3t5YrZpgs4fMB+mGk+0cDTuunhlQWc7S3U0AQ8=; b=GKGDt34ctP/kFzMeLQTZEyUjuIyS7lzg27Dw+gnhWlRoK/d5TM7YmiJtXmbGOsxuts HVI9iiroCDwW85QUfLGkLuQ39cN/skD4aHqHcQCsI36S88XSNJ6Gtu6hWgN0neUVfPxM pMW9ZyudZl4iBkK9CjGSGvT6Pw8IdARTDwlOc= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=KPEIr3t5YrZpgs4fMB+mGk+0cDTuunhlQWc7S3U0AQ8=; b=klNuEAflTFDcglJ71yS1jURUKX3sXpGFrpkD7HH2HENdekP06PIShrbJueBJ5+PIkc Hyisqr/Ezqv3qpMtOEUxU41Nt07jvnsjUQ4AH2kz1FEaWze8bdYkGlJHUCj+tIzrVZWs fXaE2UbVhaXHszG7f4AuwIVoOEyGag2hVt0CN8YyK9mV9/CwGbbnj0OhYmhegRmm6Ug1 JOdmk4+nLFttZXXwRfbpu/3Ifk8GM3U+md4mnzkfxgezMcg72t6w4LeInXDrB6vnyJkH YjTGk33dVqx59a8YEcIrpttKL0IBS8SdLCbcaMKbsqeKWRhhDfQkMllE/+qhC2TLac8Z 5vRA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530Ti9ORmaJjPSz2Hnnn9vUJGnKOZGvNjxcIM9gLfkesGPtshnbY 0F3tyWcHjIWehU5mARjCk6gLqejRAdJ5hxdveBmq6g== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJxsriYvbmjZ/ZwlaffTkLej1c+3fO0WmtucOVEbbofXUjb2TzT4N/NE8dL1Ox16YrbSOje0hB9WKm9HC/BXXEc= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6638:2689:: with SMTP id o9mr7740642jat.83.1637208519321; Wed, 17 Nov 2021 20:08:39 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <5786413.XMpytKYiJR@thomas> In-Reply-To: <5786413.XMpytKYiJR@thomas> From: Ajit Khaparde Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 20:08:23 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: release schedule change proposal To: Thomas Monjalon Cc: dpdk-dev , users@dpdk.org, David Marchand , Ferruh Yigit , Andrew Rybchenko , Qi Zhang , Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran , Raslan Darawsheh , Maxime Coquelin , Akhil Goyal , Luca Boccassi , Kevin Traynor , Bruce Richardson , Ray Kinsella , "Ananyev, Konstantin" , Olivier Matz , Honnappa Nagarahalli , Hemant Agrawal , Aaron Conole Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" 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 Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 6:58 AM 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 +1 > > Opinions? > >