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 D4EBCA0032; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:39:53 +0100 (CET) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA28B40E25; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:39:53 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-io1-f51.google.com (mail-io1-f51.google.com [209.85.166.51]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9870B40141; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:39:52 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-io1-f51.google.com with SMTP id v65so22008659ioe.5; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 07:39:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=HJ3x5P+tpj7jQGUUPDFSiEjYH0FqKpKmsbjKdmDXSic=; b=MX689D0ieo2ovoZR7p2Lrwq9sBa78wOmcqZE9YPckSwj1V6sN7uNDsiPlLy/FprSsv C71Z2MyHLOb/O5269n2dcXkcTogcmL2aPn3pcLVQp1MSHipwBmz0+92unjfBvJGDHKfI VV7W+vHHAPl/F4iPaWWpvq8KN/b2x72B46KC4iNxo4PK6WxDgbEqVAAm1W7wwzd4r3NY JPTRipXhw5XnK7qGOZGWcwuwUzneqRUW31jOcvb1QIWSdEskuQnytdLYMkD8EZGmzD8G PqCt3xpUl1sGCMTjEDRt+1vS7+QT1xP3fggL+31AO2ldj07671v5lKlKqXqpZay9606Z 6G8A== 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=HJ3x5P+tpj7jQGUUPDFSiEjYH0FqKpKmsbjKdmDXSic=; b=BluvUE4DxxwlkSISMvHj1hXWfrv1xcAAKdn+Y1JbR43PY7kXKgtid4ZY4sUqjq1b9I 8d+bUhAQ10Tyz1uEszoxe5T9fQ2H/tXgjdADr3k+xkQILlE8t+bbIfVUnZ3381rq3xaq 9mz00CKGOOOMcRT9PaLrevWfVAp/r107sOdvKRr4lEGzZ7dx7Ue19B9Xac96ndEOsUrc J436E+Rl8cHsT1nUTs6HQE5hFeNBwYNxuB0/flAGuWhOTLojvQqo3prncvxgLxIDjC+8 LTPsPXsqMHxRUmYn4ID+UrDkdMWIXRC3EwV+2y1RCMaxerYLRXz/efkUd0SDu48z1axl V7ZA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM5321v7PjbTWnhSOpDgYvyX1SwC8dSn4X99G19l0j0wQ9Xa5LrWRl +hmBR7S6Ytx2IbvOjcrWoSMfwLmu6nyKXuG9EPE= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwzZL4VKBnwqzC3zq/eyc632UwSO+wl/ULYaZV3AOjbd6O3vNIyTrB5pKcSDhyi5mex+a6cNGjAiIIcVbgztLM= X-Received: by 2002:a6b:b886:: with SMTP id i128mr27387254iof.151.1636990791925; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 07:39:51 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <5786413.XMpytKYiJR@thomas> <7c5d07fd690dbde4a155ed476f4e6cee5fc4aed9.camel@debian.org> In-Reply-To: <7c5d07fd690dbde4a155ed476f4e6cee5fc4aed9.camel@debian.org> From: Jerin Jacob Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 21:09:26 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: release schedule change proposal To: Luca Boccassi Cc: Thomas Monjalon , dpdk-dev , users@dpdk.org 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 8:42 PM Luca Boccassi wrote: > > On Mon, 2021-11-15 at 15:58 +0100, 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) +1 > > > > 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? > > We upload only LTS releases to Debian/Ubuntu, so as long as those stay > the same as it is proposed here, no problem for us. > > -- > Kind regards, > Luca Boccassi