On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 01:06:00PM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
> > OVS recently adopted a six month release cycle.  OVS doesn't
> > have to align to other projects, but it can be beneficial.
> > The dates for OVS 2.6 aligned very well to OpenStack,
> > which is a major consumer of OVS that usually does 6 month releases.
> >
> > OpenStack is doing a short release cycle for its Ocata release
> > to adjust to changes to their event schedule.
> >
> > https://releases.openstack.org/ocata/schedule.html
> >
> > As a result, I propose that we adjust the schedule for OVS 2.7 to remain
> > just ahead of OpenStack.  The specific target dates for 2.7 I propose
> > would be:
> >
> >   branch-2.7 created             - Jan 11, 2017
> >   2.7.0 released from branch-2.7 - Feb 8, 2017
> >
> > The key differences are moving the release date from March to February
> > and also shortening the period between branch creation and release to
> > account for the shorter development cycle.
> >
> > This patch also adjusts the release cycle target dates to indicate
> > February as the target release month instead of March.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <[email protected]>
>
> Thanks Russell.
>
> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
>

Thanks.  v2 has been out for a bit over a week without any additional
comments, so I went ahead and applied this to master.

-- 
Russell Bryant
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