On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 11:00 PM Mark Michelson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Development in the 21.09 cycle of OVN saw an unprecedented push towards > performance and scalability improvements. Development in the 21.12 cycle > has seen stability enhancements and even more performance improvements. > It's reached the point where I think it would be safe (and a good idea) > to label 22.03 as an LTS release. > > As a reminder of what an LTS release is: > "An LTS release is one that the OVN project has designated as being > maintained for a longer period of time. Currently, an LTS release is > maintained until the next LTS is chosen." > > This means that we would continue to maintain 22.03 even after the > following release is made. It's unknown how long the support will go, > since it is unknown which release will be the next LTS. The next LTS > will likely be chosen when some milestone or milestones have been > reached, and those milestones have had time to stabilize. I suspect this > will require us to support 22.03 for multiple years. > > The rationale for this proposal is to give users a version they can feel > safe using for multiple years, receiving bug fixes during that whole time. > > Please respond with your thoughts on this proposal.
We welcome the proposal of naming an OVN LTS release, and as it happens 22.03 is a very good fit for us as we're starting the Ubuntu LTS cycle at 22.04. So +1 for the proposal of naming 22.03 an LTS. I think it would be preferable to have new LTS's come on a cadence, but we are already discussing that in a separate thread. -- Frode Nordahl > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
