[adding [email protected]] On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 04:09:20PM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote: > Source: openvswitch > Version: 2.13.0+dfsg1-12 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected] > [email protected] > Tags: bullseye > > Dear Openvswitch Maintainers, > > We are scoping the src:dpdk 19.11 -> 20.11 transition. If possible, > we'd really like to go to bullseye with the latest upstream LTS, as > 19.11 is EOL at the end of next year. > > OVS support for DPDK 20.11 will be released upstream in v2.15, which is > due for release on February 15 [1]. > Bullseye transition freeze is on January 12 [2], so the dates > don't align very well. > > So we are looking to formulate a plan that you can agree with, to sort > this out. > > Based on experience, what Ubuntu usually does to meet release deadlines > is to upload from git earlier than the release, so that all major > incompatibilities can be sorted. And then after the freeze, once the > release is officially out, do a final upgrade to the released version - > since a similar enough version was uploaded from git, and at the end of > a release cycle it's mostly bug fixes that land upstream, such an > upload is acceptable. > > So we'd like to propose the following ideas: > > - between now and December: upload v2.14, to minimize the later jump > - by the first week of January: upload 2.15~git from the tip of the > master branch to experimental > - stabilize and sort eventual build issues > - upload dpdk 20.11 and ovs 2.15~git to unstable > - upload 2.15 proper in February as a bug fix upload to unstable > > What do you think? Does this sound like a workable plan? > > We are of course happy to help - Ubuntu will go through the exact same > process for 21.04, so a lot of the work is "shared". > > Thank you! > > -- > Kind regards, > Luca Boccassi > > [1] https://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/internals/release-process/ > [2] https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html
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