Re: [PATCH] release 20.11.4

[Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>]

On 17/01/2022 10:03, David Marchand wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 9:03 AM Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com> wrote:
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
>> ---
>>   content/download/_index.md | 2 +-
>>   content/roadmap/_index.md  | 2 +-
>>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/content/download/_index.md b/content/download/_index.md
>> index 83a6881..64aada4 100644
>> --- a/content/download/_index.md
>> +++ b/content/download/_index.md
>> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ weight = "2"
>>   | [DPDK 21.08.0](//fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-21.08.tar.xz)         | [2021 August 8](//doc.dpdk.org/guides-21.08/rel_notes/release_21_08.html)    | de33433a1806280996a0ecbe66e3642f |
>>   | [DPDK 21.05.0](//fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-21.05.tar.xz)         | [2021 May 21](//doc.dpdk.org/guides-21.05/rel_notes/release_21_05.html)      | a78bba290b11d9717d1272cc6bfaf7c3 |
>>   | [DPDK 21.02.0](//fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-21.02.tar.xz)         | [2021 February 14](//doc.dpdk.org/guides-21.02/rel_notes/release_21_02.html) | 2c3e4800b04495ad7fa8656a7e1a3ec1 |
>> -| [DPDK 20.11.3 (LTS)](//fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-20.11.3.tar.xz) | [2021 September 6](//doc.dpdk.org/guides-20.11/rel_notes/release_20_11.html) | e2f9ac261eb639c92811d205926253d1 |
>> +| [DPDK 20.11.4 (LTS)](//fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-20.11.4.tar.xz) | [2022 January 17](//doc.dpdk.org/guides-20.11/rel_notes/release_20_11.html)  | 61a2ae4e6d8e62a428b549a43d965f4e |
>>   | [DPDK 20.08.0](//fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-20.08.tar.xz)         | [2020 August 8](//doc.dpdk.org/guides-20.08/rel_notes/release_20_08.html)    | 64badd32cd6bc0761befc8f2402c2148 |
>>   | [DPDK 20.05.0](//fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-20.05.tar.xz)         | [2020 May 26](//doc.dpdk.org/guides-20.05/rel_notes/release_20_05.html)      | 7c6f3e7f7de2422775c4cba116012c4d |
>>   | [DPDK 20.02.1](//fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-20.02.1.tar.xz)       | [2020 May 18](//doc.dpdk.org/guides-20.02/rel_notes/release_20_02.html)      | fd04cb05c728f474b438c6e7aa1eb195 |
>> diff --git a/content/roadmap/_index.md b/content/roadmap/_index.md
>> index 9d3f8e6..7714f22 100644
>> --- a/content/roadmap/_index.md
>> +++ b/content/roadmap/_index.md
>> @@ -139,4 +139,4 @@ by 1-2 weeks, depending on the test results.
>>   |----------|----------|-------------------|---------------------|---------------------------|
>>   | 18.11.11 | -        | -                 | December 2020 (EOL) | -                         |
>>   | 19.11.11 | 19.11.12 | May 2022          | December 2022 (LTS) | Christian Ehrhardt        |
>> -| 20.11.3  | 20.11.4  | December 2021     | November 2022 (LTS) | Luca Boccassi, Xueming Li |
>> +| 20.11.4  | 20.11.5  | May 2022          | December 2023 (LTS) | Luca Boccassi, Xueming Li |
> 
> I saw this clearly asked for 19.11 but I don't remember a confirmation
> that validation teams were okay for extending 20.11 to 3 years.
> Otherwise patch lgtm.
> 
> 

It was discussed that 19.11 should be a *trial* for LTS year 3 support.

 From 19.11 year 3 we can see if it is useful and a good use of 
resources considering the divergence from main branch and difficulty 
backporting/validating.

With the learnings from 19.11 year 3 we can make an informed decision 
about other LTSs and it's better not to over commit at this point.

I also made the comment on the 19.11 patch that this was not clear, but 
it seems to have got lost.
http://inbox.dpdk.org/web/ab289c72-b055-2dce-0e13-d2252298345c@redhat.com/

Anyway, I'm not sure asking validation teams to commit their resources 
in 2023 is realistic 1 year in advance.