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From: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
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Subject: [dpdk-web] [RFC v3] Add LTS section on the roadmap page
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Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
---
 dev/roadmap.html | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/dev/roadmap.html b/dev/roadmap.html
index 569d8b8..ebb81a9 100644
--- a/dev/roadmap.html
+++ b/dev/roadmap.html
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 		</ul>
 	</nav>
 </header>
-<section>
+<section id="rel">
 	<h2>Development roadmap</h2>
 	<p>Major known features and milestones may be noted here.
 	This list is obviously neither complete nor guaranteed.
@@ -96,5 +96,39 @@
 		<li>Integration deadline: October 5, 2018
 		<li>Release: November 2, 2018
 	</ul>
+	<h2 id="stable">Stable releases</h2>
+	<p>Stable point releases follow mainline releases.
+	<p>After each -rc tag and after the final version, relevant bug fixes get
+        backported by the stable maintainers into the respective branches in "bursts".
+	<p>Developers can provide stable-specific patches by sending them to stable@dpdk.org
+        only (avoiding dev@dpdk.org).
+	<p>After all the relevant bugfixes have been backported, regression tests are ran,
+        and if clear, the stable release is announced.
+	<p>Typically a new stable release version follows a mainline release by 1-2 weeks, depending
+        on the test results.
+	<hr>
+	<table>
+		<tr>
+			<th>Branch</th>
+			<th>Next version</th>
+			<th>Date</th>
+			<th>End of life</th>
+			<th>Maintainer</th>
+		</tr>
+		<tr>
+			<td>16.11</td>
+			<td>16.11.6</td>
+			<td>May 19, 2018</td>
+			<td>November 2018</td>
+			<td>Luca Boccassi</td>
+		</tr>
+		<tr>
+			<td>17.11</td>
+			<td>17.11.2</td>
+			<td>May 19, 2018</td>
+			<td>November 2019</td>
+			<td>Yuanhan Liu</td>
+		</tr>
+	</table>
 </section>
 <footer></footer>
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