From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-vk0-f67.google.com (mail-vk0-f67.google.com [209.85.213.67]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B89B4AD83 for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2016 21:40:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-vk0-f67.google.com with SMTP id z65so12375781vka.0 for ; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 12:40:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=6S7AwC3PM7rumGm8K11V9jfDmuEhhCmWLaOsc6YIPaY=; b=ZYTEO1aXL43JN9A2ZeAbrjeMuVAxWceT3izsXwoUl7HIJ3FrrsL3rcbdWxHIt6KTfM Evxz6yLjIoGpUXj2OjUENQ0m0455cSsFJBtTkm0PuB/eK0GTUFcFyJqb2yPDA6hnGXLO ONs9k8EY4uLH06JDQlwAMI91R9GCVKojJ6Yj40Y/Mt9TXcx4kK1uzghIPslRPC6qfc/U /Tkp4xPN6KF5fqKDi2t5YWBwY+wowQvLrt4hS5tpJsKQGtKqL9zl1iqLLzWbjcEzWZD4 ROKVmsjn66VO+1hV+AI9Ktjq7hnoH2ODgFFw6G9gakJV0Fenz+pY5BJIWwoY7PO09+IL t5qw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=6S7AwC3PM7rumGm8K11V9jfDmuEhhCmWLaOsc6YIPaY=; b=c9ABrv+66kogPmMha5FsMSmAN1RhIfPVK41oU6UWrdzQG32xHKnEvMa/jX6WYMTlZh v4iIHlVzw2GFtRg63rVt02i6qV9vmAM/i6vTOfLK6Q3XagC010N9tHWuBF1Sm6Sf2p5/ 9/r6xPq81BNBwozdrbUPdXfgGYasz1GwhzaRotpAgrQZO4YfRlgAciVce1Hp8a7Saj8J B3/3X3QgituhjPl8M2AtcgdZJWZIK6D9BrdmAHjmtj1w2AyMOtuqDBtXuEiPwVHNlK1q +y3nFAwfIN7LiP5w88Rh3rArhnX55cZM1HYeNdDOfXdGIpDcsyvxYNZ/MYj3D5apPweM FLew== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tIZhAhGgZmEnqt3b6rIfHyAhDRTjU6M8zLmmHKRHxZCUYlGJjL4els+71HvyKoyDLYcZGLox9b/3L5NHQ== X-Received: by 10.176.6.97 with SMTP id f88mr493912uaf.38.1465328412136; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 12:40:12 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.103.76.210 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Jun 2016 12:39:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: =?UTF-8?B?TWFydGlueCAtIOOCuOOCp+ODvOODoOOCug==?= Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 15:39:40 -0400 Message-ID: To: Christian Ehrhardt Cc: dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.15 Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] RFC: DPDK Long Term Support X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 19:40:13 -0000 On 7 June 2016 at 08:36, Christian Ehrhardt < christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Mcnamara, John > wrote: > [...] > > > > LTS Version > > ------------ > > > > The proposed initial LTS version will be DPDK 16.07. The next versions, > > based > > on a 2 year cycle, will be DPDK 18.08, 20.08, etc. > > > > I can see on the discussions that much more things around this have to be > discussed and agreed, but to some extend we will also just "have to wait > and see" how things work out. > I fully agree to the API change argument to start with 16.07 and the 2 year > cycle (more would be nice, but this means effort and after a while almost > nothing is "easily" backportable). > > Never the less I have to ask - as I'd be personally much more happy if it > would be the odd years autumn release that would make the LTS as it would > match our LTS releases much much better. > Otherwise we (Ubuntu) will always "just miss" the LTS by a few months. > First I'd have thought on xx.02 releases, but consuming applications might > need time to adapt and while there are the nice API/ABI guarantees > experience tells me to better leave some kind of time-buffer. > > Also this would give all of us a first shot with a shorter (not so long as > in L) LTS to see if the process we defined works out before jumping on a > full 2 year cadence. > > So while I see that this is kind of "my problem" I would at least try to > personally ask and vote for LTS being: 16.7, 17.11, 19.11, 21.11, ... > > Christian Ehrhardt > Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server > Canonical Ltd > +1 For DPDK LTS being: 16.7, 17.11, 19.11, 21.11, ... This way, DPDK LTS 17.11 will be part of Ubuntu LTS 18.04... DPDK LTS 19.11 on Ubuntu LTS 20.04... Very likely that DPDK LTS 16.07 will be available to Ubuntu 16.04 via Ubuntu Cloud Archive Newton. Cheers! Thiago