Re: [dpdk-web] [PATCH] add stable and LTS release plan

[Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 10:42:55AM +0000, Mcnamara, John wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com]
> > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 10:00 AM
> > To: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>; Mcnamara, John
> > <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
> > Cc: web@dpdk.org; Liu, Yu Y <yu.y.liu@intel.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] add stable and LTS release plan
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Sorry there was no feedback on this patch.
> > 
> > 2017-01-23 20:10, Yuanhan Liu:
> > > Cc: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
> > > Cc: Yu Liu <yu.y.liu@intel.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
> > > ---
> > >
> > >   I made it in rush, meaning there are huge room for improvements
> > >   about this short update :)
> > >
> > >   Another thought from me is to link the detailed stable/LTS doc
> > >   from John, when it's merged.
> > 
> > It is merged: http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/contributing/stable.html

Good. I could make a v2 to point it.

> > > +	<h3 id="stable">Stable and LTS release</h3>
> > > +	<p>A new release will be made about every 3 months, shortly (about 3
> > > +	weeks) after an upstream release is made. For example, v16.11.1 will
> > > +	be released shortly after v17.02 is released.
> > > +	<p>For a stable release, normally, there is only one such release.
> > > +	While for a LTS release, which has longer maintainance (2 years),
> > > +	there are more releases (.2, .3, etc) following.
> > 
> > John, any opinion or rewording for this text?
> 
> The wording id fine. The only thing is that "will be released" is in the
> future tense and 16.11.1 is due to be release. So it may be better as 
> below. Also s/maintainance/maintenance/
> 
> 
> 	<h3 id="stable">Stable and LTS release</h3>
> 	<p>A new stable release will be made about every 3 months, shortly (around
> 	3 weeks) after an upstream release has been made. For example, v16.11.1
> 	was released shortly after v17.02.
> 	<p>In general, there will only be one such release for a stable release. 
> 	For an LTS release, which has a longer maintenance period (2 years)
> 	there will be several releases (.2, .3, etc.).

Thanks, John!

> > 
> > >  	<h3 id="dates">Scheduling</h3>
> > 
> > I think we should publish the dates for the next releases here.
> 
> Agreed. Just add 3 weeks to the other release dates as a guidance.

Okay.

And I think we still miss one thing: we may need one new section to
tell which version is a LTS. Any idea?

	--yliu