[2/2] Extend 19.11.x support period to 3 years

From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>

It was discussed in various places by now, along with the switch of the
main development branch to three per year we also want to extend the
lifetime of the LTS releases.

19.11.x is the first to pass the two years and we want to extend it to
three as it still has active users e.g. via Ubuntu 20.04 LTS but also
potentially many other appliances and/or vendors.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
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On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 11:18 +0100, christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com
wrote:
> From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> 
> It was discussed in various places by now, along with the switch of the
> main development branch to three per year we also want to extend the
> lifetime of the LTS releases.
> 
> 19.11.x is the first to pass the two years and we want to extend it to
> three as it still has active users e.g. via Ubuntu 20.04 LTS but also
> potentially many other appliances and/or vendors.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> ---
>  content/roadmap/_index.md | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/content/roadmap/_index.md b/content/roadmap/_index.md
> index 3c01699..1580a8c 100644
> --- a/content/roadmap/_index.md
> +++ b/content/roadmap/_index.md
> @@ -102,5 +102,5 @@ by 1-2 weeks, depending on the test results.
>  | Current version | Next version | Next version Date | End of life | Maintainers            |
>  |----------|----------|-------------------|---------------------|---------------------------|
>  | 18.11.11 | -        | -                 | December 2020 (EOL) | -                         |
> -| 19.11.10 | 19.11.11 | January 2022      | December 2021 (LTS) | Christian Ehrhardt        |
> +| 19.11.10 | 19.11.11 | January 2022      | December 2022 (LTS) | Christian Ehrhardt        |
>  | 20.11.3  | 20.11.4  | December 2021     | November 2022 (LTS) | Luca Boccassi, Xueming Li |

Conditional on ACK from QA,

Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
  

On 02/12/2021 10:18, christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com wrote:
> From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> 
> It was discussed in various places by now, along with the switch of the
> main development branch to three per year we also want to extend the
> lifetime of the LTS releases.
> 
> 19.11.x is the first to pass the two years and we want to extend it to
> three as it still has active users e.g. via Ubuntu 20.04 LTS but also
> potentially many other appliances and/or vendors.
> 

I think it should be clear that 19.11 year 3 is a trial and extending 
other LTSs >2 years will be evaluated at the end of this. Just so not to 
set expectation that this will automatically apply for other LTS 
releases too.

> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> ---
>   content/roadmap/_index.md | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/content/roadmap/_index.md b/content/roadmap/_index.md
> index 3c01699..1580a8c 100644
> --- a/content/roadmap/_index.md
> +++ b/content/roadmap/_index.md
> @@ -102,5 +102,5 @@ by 1-2 weeks, depending on the test results.
>   | Current version | Next version | Next version Date | End of life | Maintainers            |
>   |----------|----------|-------------------|---------------------|---------------------------|
>   | 18.11.11 | -        | -                 | December 2020 (EOL) | -                         |
> -| 19.11.10 | 19.11.11 | January 2022      | December 2021 (LTS) | Christian Ehrhardt        |
> +| 19.11.10 | 19.11.11 | January 2022      | December 2022 (LTS) | Christian Ehrhardt        |
>   | 20.11.3  | 20.11.4  | December 2021     | November 2022 (LTS) | Luca Boccassi, Xueming Li |
> 

For the 19.11 trial itself,

Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2021 10:18 AM
> Cc: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Extend 19.11.x support period to 3 years
> 
> From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> 
> It was discussed in various places by now, along with the switch of the
> main development branch to three per year we also want to extend the
> lifetime of the LTS releases.

Hi Christian,

Zhaoyan and the Intel System Test team agree to test the additional year 3 releases.

John

Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
  

On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 5:16 PM Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara@intel.com> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2021 10:18 AM
> > Cc: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Extend 19.11.x support period to 3 years
> >
> > From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> >
> > It was discussed in various places by now, along with the switch of the
> > main development branch to three per year we also want to extend the
> > lifetime of the LTS releases.
>
> Hi Christian,
>
> Zhaoyan and the Intel System Test team agree to test the additional year 3 releases.
>
> John
>
> Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>

@Mcnamara, John - Intel usually submits two test results.
One like http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-August/033130.html
And one separately for "Intel(R) Testing with Open vSwitch" like
http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-June/031702.html
Does the above commitment include both?

I forgot, I also give my own ok in regard to Canonical testing of
further 19.11 releases.

Looking at the usual major test coverage providers we still need an answer from:
- RedHat (like http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-September/033218.html)
  @Pei Zhang ?
- Nvidia (like http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-August/033131.html)
  @Ali Alnubani ?
  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2021 7:55 AM
>...
> <hariprasad.govindharajan@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Extend 19.11.x support period to 3 years
> 
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 5:16 PM Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com
> > > <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> > > Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2021 10:18 AM
> > > Cc: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> > > Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Extend 19.11.x support period to 3 years
> > >
> > > From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> > >
> > > It was discussed in various places by now, along with the switch of
> > > the main development branch to three per year we also want to extend
> > > the lifetime of the LTS releases.
> >
> > Hi Christian,
> >
> > Zhaoyan and the Intel System Test team agree to test the additional year
> 3 releases.
> >
> > John
> >
> > Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
> 
> @Mcnamara, John - Intel usually submits two test results.
> One like http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-August/033130.html
> And one separately for "Intel(R) Testing with Open vSwitch" like
> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-June/031702.html
> Does the above commitment include both?

Yes. We will commit to both.

John
  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2021 9:55 AM
> To: Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
> Cc: web@dpdk.org; Stokes, Ian <ian.stokes@intel.com>; Kevin Traynor
> <ktraynor@redhat.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL)
> <thomas@monjalon.net>; Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>;
> Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>; David Marchand
> <dmarchan@redhat.com>; Pei Zhang <pezhang@redhat.com>; Raslan
> Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>; Xu, Qian Q <qian.q.xu@intel.com>; Ju-
> Hyoung Lee <juhlee@microsoft.com>; Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>;
> David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Walker, Benjamin
> <benjamin.walker@intel.com>; Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>; Hemant
> Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>; Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>;
> Peng, Yuan <yuan.peng@intel.com>; pingx.yu@intel.com; Chen, Zhaoyan
> <zhaoyan.chen@intel.com>; Abhishek Marathe
> <Abhishek.Marathe@microsoft.com>; Govindharajan, Hariprasad
> <hariprasad.govindharajan@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Extend 19.11.x support period to 3 years
> 
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 5:16 PM Mcnamara, John
> <john.mcnamara@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com
> <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> > > Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2021 10:18 AM
> > > Cc: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> > > Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Extend 19.11.x support period to 3 years
> > >
> > > From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> > >
> > > It was discussed in various places by now, along with the switch of the
> > > main development branch to three per year we also want to extend the
> > > lifetime of the LTS releases.
> >
> > Hi Christian,
> >
> > Zhaoyan and the Intel System Test team agree to test the additional year 3
> releases.
> >
> > John
> >
> > Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
> 
> @Mcnamara, John - Intel usually submits two test results.
> One like http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-August/033130.html
> And one separately for "Intel(R) Testing with Open vSwitch" like
> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-June/031702.html
> Does the above commitment include both?
> 
> I forgot, I also give my own ok in regard to Canonical testing of
> further 19.11 releases.
> 
> Looking at the usual major test coverage providers we still need an answer
> from:
> - RedHat (like http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-
> September/033218.html)
>   @Pei Zhang ?
> - Nvidia (like http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-
> August/033131.html)
>   @Ali Alnubani ?

Hi Christian,

We will also be reporting our test coverage during the extended support period.

Thanks,
Ali
  

On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 3:56 PM Christian Ehrhardt <
christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 5:16 PM Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com <
> christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> > > Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2021 10:18 AM
> > > Cc: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> > > Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Extend 19.11.x support period to 3 years
> > >
> > > From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> > >
> > > It was discussed in various places by now, along with the switch of the
> > > main development branch to three per year we also want to extend the
> > > lifetime of the LTS releases.
> >
> > Hi Christian,
> >
> > Zhaoyan and the Intel System Test team agree to test the additional year
> 3 releases.
> >
> > John
> >
> > Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
>
> @Mcnamara, John - Intel usually submits two test results.
> One like http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-August/033130.html
> And one separately for "Intel(R) Testing with Open vSwitch" like
> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-June/031702.html
> Does the above commitment include both?
>
> I forgot, I also give my own ok in regard to Canonical testing of
> further 19.11 releases.
>
> Looking at the usual major test coverage providers we still need an answer
> from:
> - RedHat (like
> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-September/033218.html)
>   @Pei Zhang ?
>

Hello Christian,

Ack. We are OK to test further 19.11 releases in the next year.

Best regards,

Pei


> - Nvidia (like
> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-August/033131.html)
>   @Ali Alnubani ?
>
> --
> Christian Ehrhardt
> Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
> Canonical Ltd
>
>
  

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 11:57 AM Pei Zhang <pezhang@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 3:56 PM Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 5:16 PM Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara@intel.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > From: christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
>> > > Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2021 10:18 AM
>> > > Cc: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
>> > > Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Extend 19.11.x support period to 3 years
>> > >
>> > > From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
>> > >
>> > > It was discussed in various places by now, along with the switch of the
>> > > main development branch to three per year we also want to extend the
>> > > lifetime of the LTS releases.
>> >
>> > Hi Christian,
>> >
>> > Zhaoyan and the Intel System Test team agree to test the additional year 3 releases.
>> >
>> > John
>> >
>> > Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
>>
>> @Mcnamara, John - Intel usually submits two test results.
>> One like http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-August/033130.html
>> And one separately for "Intel(R) Testing with Open vSwitch" like
>> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-June/031702.html
>> Does the above commitment include both?
>>
>> I forgot, I also give my own ok in regard to Canonical testing of
>> further 19.11 releases.
>>
>> Looking at the usual major test coverage providers we still need an answer from:
>> - RedHat (like http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-September/033218.html)
>>   @Pei Zhang ?
>
>
> Hello Christian,
>
> Ack. We are OK to test further 19.11 releases in the next year.

Thank you!

Thereby we have all the usual validation reporters agreeing and I'll
push that change.

> Best regards,
>
> Pei
>
>>
>> - Nvidia (like http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-August/033131.html)
>>   @Ali Alnubani ?
>>
>> --
>> Christian Ehrhardt
>> Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
>> Canonical Ltd
>>