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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-web] [PATCH v2] update stable releases roadmap
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 15:28:44 +0200
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18/04/2018 14:28, Ferruh Yigit:
> On 4/18/2018 10:14 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 18/04/2018 11:05, Ferruh Yigit:
> >> On 4/11/2018 12:28 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> >>> -	<p>Typically a new stable release version follows a mainline release
> >>> -	by 1-2 weeks, depending on the test results.
> >>> +	<p>The first stable release (.1) of a branch should follow
> >>> +	its mainline release (.0) by at least two months,
> >>> +	after the first release candidate (-rc1) of the next branch.
> >>
> >> Hi Thomas,
> >>
> >> What this change suggest? To be able to backport patches from rc1?
> > 
> > Yes, it is the proposal we discussed earlier.
> > We can wait one week after RC1 to get some validation confirmation.
> > Do you agree?
> 
> This has been discussed in tech-board, what I remember the decision was to wait
> the release to backport patches into stable tree.

It was not so clear to me.
I thought post-rc1 was acceptable. The idea is to speed-up stable releases
pace, especially first release of a series.