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 F33B2A0032 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 17:58:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2CDD40E01; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 17:58:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-pl1-f173.google.com (mail-pl1-f173.google.com [209.85.214.173]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C098140141 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 17:58:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-pl1-f173.google.com with SMTP id u11so15018537plf.3 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 08:58:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=networkplumber-org.20210112.gappssmtp.com; s=20210112; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=m3/rSA1mNf2yG6q4utv1dCLv6KEcQQGeN229U3cmL3k=; b=FULRvccTd2ktdkZRXx+Ii1zcm1Jz9qSHatnxnyMmxqeIneqkuJcsfMlKt5xspMcnKh txEWRaL0gJLaPncf4BhyzWn4a9qQchk/rTu36aRwwp0Y02ZemnLU+T6SFXYVgKBVJcQR aZt2UB4f6JjU7dZkRfeUyQsFWLPHGjoapkh/8MuHFfdQ6mDZOr9IxifdfUQKjxVCBQqr LLyhLDTdugxPO8hLAMT5oBBrPxsLkQhF9tfceKOj6NzOSw5ZiQ9NwmyqB/mnU8P7heCi KbPS/Q2CAtOy3T3QjtYSTpJGxkHcRfLS1u1pMTU7UESLiwos43KO7/AMqjqPyeahZsbL F1pQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=m3/rSA1mNf2yG6q4utv1dCLv6KEcQQGeN229U3cmL3k=; b=qGkxSG2yZ1pB/VM05r1CVq3maEsEqTtSI0h0XIWNiKUDKYnCsxxDvsHOdkWRcyhocy ERsN+AAHUfpTn37HwYKzjqdFgMPkXTFKpcFtvRkDZl6Z/gGt2iFyVkd8lzs301F/ecqE RXTAZ+aSLg3AQbC2omQr6o89JzMybM7AstfoCDlo9ax1YqNZ3Vo4L90slYXtB9dRcwoK kJmEmqLy3aZZC0CsGN90BiNmL3H5Ezp1QxxmXnT0ZEq1MgQ8ClChRbPHj/NtEHqDCSF/ fF/9vDKTKTo67T15m9Sb2wwJc04oGefdLObbTADsxJpECkQx3WpNY9gsEw4EaNdnajtY vIyw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530OaqfpM+MHJAKkmyFscZbwOezaVVjnUUJrbQHjdJOA7ciW5gua r6wtdg5nRVJ8NmVxVwRc2/rEGg== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwLTl6xhfetuWbopeBFVkDhKlMfPNRPdeSch8k8U9i7H/fFEfLxUMJvilwh+rX5Le1SZmnl0A== X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:7289:b0:142:805f:e2c with SMTP id d9-20020a170902728900b00142805f0e2cmr36390539pll.42.1636995504940; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 08:58:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes.local (204-195-33-123.wavecable.com. [204.195.33.123]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id o4sm18767627pjq.23.2021.11.15.08.58.23 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 15 Nov 2021 08:58:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 08:58:21 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Thomas Monjalon Cc: dev@dpdk.org, users@dpdk.org, david.marchand@redhat.com, ferruh.yigit@intel.com, andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru, qi.z.zhang@intel.com, jerinj@marvell.com, rasland@nvidia.com, maxime.coquelin@redhat.com, gakhil@marvell.com, bluca@debian.org, ktraynor@redhat.com, bruce.richardson@intel.com, mdr@ashroe.eu, konstantin.ananyev@intel.com, olivier.matz@6wind.com, honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com, hemant.agrawal@nxp.com, aconole@redhat.com, ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com Subject: Re: release schedule change proposal Message-ID: <20211115085821.0f89cc96@hermes.local> In-Reply-To: <5786413.XMpytKYiJR@thomas> References: <5786413.XMpytKYiJR@thomas> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: users@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK usage discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: users-bounces@dpdk.org On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:58:15 +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) This nicely adapts to the natural slowdown due to holidays in December and August.