Re: [dpdk-web] [RFC] Add LTS section on the roadmap page

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

08/02/2018 19:24, Luca Boccassi:
> On Thu, 2018-02-08 at 18:21 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
> > ---
> >  dev/roadmap.html | 10 ++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/dev/roadmap.html b/dev/roadmap.html
> > index a2fea2f..c818bde 100644
> > --- a/dev/roadmap.html
> > +++ b/dev/roadmap.html
> > @@ -111,5 +111,15 @@
> >  		<li>Integration deadline: September 28, 2018
> >  		<li>Release: November 2, 2018
> >  	</ul>
> > +	<h3 id="lts">LTS releases</h3>
> > +	<p>LTS point releases follow mainline releases.
> > +	<p>After each -rc tag and after the final version, relevant
> > bug fixes get
> > +        backported by the LTS maintainers into the respective
> > branches.
> > +	<p>Developers can provide LTS-specific patches by sending
> > them to stable@dpdk.org
> > +        only.
> > +	<p>After all the relevant bugfixes have been backported,
> > regression tests are ran,
> > +        and if clear, the LTS is announced.
> > +	<p>Typically a new LTS version follows a mainline release by
> > 1-2 weeks, depending
> > +        on the test results.
> >  </section>
> >  <footer></footer>
> 
> Thomas,
> 
> Is this what you had in mind? Let me know if there are any changes
> you'd like.

You should talk about stable releases, LTS being some of them.

In current process, patches are applied in burst after -rc, right?
I think this burst mode is important to highlight.

Please, could you add a roadmap for each branch?
The roadmap could show EOL dates and the LTS ones.

> And also please test how it looks before applying :-)

You can test with "make".
On my machine I use "make PYTHON2=python2".