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[98.221.136.245]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w66sm15030210qhc.15.2016.02.01.16.46.52 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 01 Feb 2016 16:46:52 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Holmes To: lng-odp@lists.linaro.org Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 19:46:47 -0500 Message-Id: <1454374007-29913-1-git-send-email-mike.holmes@linaro.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.5.0 X-Topics: patch Subject: [lng-odp] [PATCH] doc: proccess: Add long term stable definition X-BeenThere: lng-odp@lists.linaro.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: "The OpenDataPlane \(ODP\) List" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: lng-odp-bounces@lists.linaro.org Sender: "lng-odp" Signed-off-by: Mike Holmes --- doc/process-guide/release-guide.adoc | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/process-guide/release-guide.adoc b/doc/process-guide/release-guide.adoc index 60ef769..9a99c5a 100644 --- a/doc/process-guide/release-guide.adoc +++ b/doc/process-guide/release-guide.adoc @@ -138,6 +138,18 @@ made every month if sufficient change has accumulated. === Implementation (Impl) === Platform specific free form text relating to the version. +=== Long Term Stable (LTS) === +Long term stable releases are picked by the steering committee. +When the API in master is considered an LTS candidate it will be tagged with a +release name and RC1 for the initial release candidate. + +* This release will be branched so that development may continue on master. +* The release candidate will continue incrementing as necessary until a minimum +of two hardware platforms are able to pass the validation suite, at this point +the API is considered stable and it will be tagged as the long term stable API. +* This stable branch will receive bug fixes for the LNG supported platforms for +a minimum of one year. + == Deprecating part of the API Deleting or changing the published API follows the normal <>, with the following additional rules: