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 A753BA0032 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:11:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E09FD41165; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:11:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-wr1-f43.google.com (mail-wr1-f43.google.com [209.85.221.43]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF3814115C; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:11:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-wr1-f43.google.com with SMTP id t30so31322954wra.10; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 07:11:45 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:subject:from:to:date:in-reply-to :references:content-transfer-encoding:user-agent:mime-version; bh=4dyD19QIQtNpWQX0/E7INiU/Dqlkc1i+lFFqm0fNWoM=; b=P9Xrp9401K0QfzJcFTpkG2F76AYocy1RStWR16KVxSccqWHdSG0naa7jV0uwyd7j0l /Hd2xN6/6jIIVDzZXtHOS2SBNuW+o6YtiUOwH560B9Q3HQ/HiSl051dvcC2ardhqgmDW O3q9ZkCL65KOvvRqcSoYrEUE/zOc4B5rcVJiHp44UDpfy+GAodwcN2bqhI6Y6J6OoPDB ktvBdoaSJH0zpUgUJoK4CMKq4Alo2utvWookmbmN9ySCD/hiGIEjEimgYqGdfpLp0OeV pEk3Q0DsXOeJ+xjj21seiwegBgVW9TTUXZsUcKxrliRsg2J/99toHmhFQhdSdGmabUry w0Rw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530svHe1otLkWOJ8d2+Zxre73tZWru8vJHaJNiSzu8xBQsLa9rpw 8jP+56zCT0B/InlvQ2qkCAGxTz40mM+zXdTO X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwJslZyD6XpamihEjwm1lxJPC+iUa7fqG1qwSlB50EoPIupPtebDjo4CLLa/lEZe9ZAzCNprQ== X-Received: by 2002:adf:fe4b:: with SMTP id m11mr47047934wrs.136.1636989105508; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 07:11:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([137.220.125.106]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w17sm15235476wrp.79.2021.11.15.07.11.45 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 15 Nov 2021 07:11:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7c5d07fd690dbde4a155ed476f4e6cee5fc4aed9.camel@debian.org> Subject: Re: release schedule change proposal From: Luca Boccassi To: Thomas Monjalon , dev@dpdk.org, users@dpdk.org Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:11:44 +0000 In-Reply-To: <5786413.XMpytKYiJR@thomas> References: <5786413.XMpytKYiJR@thomas> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.38.3-1+plugin MIME-Version: 1.0 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, 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) >=20 > This schedule has multiple issues: > - clash with China's Spring Festival > - too many rushes, impacting maintainers & testers > - not much buffer, impacting proposal period >=20 > I propose to switch to a new schedule with 3 releases per year: > .03 .07 .11 (LTS) >=20 > 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. >=20 > In details, this is how we could extend some milestones: >=20 > 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 >=20 > 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 >=20 > 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. --=20 Kind regards, Luca Boccassi