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doc: update LTS section

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Update the LTS section to mention the branch and how LTS support ends.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
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Kevin Traynor 2019-02-07 15:39:58 +00:00 committed by Thomas Monjalon
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doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst

@ -48,9 +48,10 @@ LTS Release
A stable release can be designated as an LTS release based on community
agreement and a commitment from a maintainer. The current policy is that each
year's November release will be maintained as an LTS for 2 years.
year's November (X.11) release will be maintained as an LTS for 2 years.
The current DPDK LTS releases are 17.11 and 18.11.
After the X.11 release, an LTS branch will be created for it at
http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable where bugfixes will be backported to.
It is anticipated that there will be at least 4 releases per year of the LTS
or approximately 1 every 3 months. However, the cadence can be shorter or
@ -58,6 +59,11 @@ longer depending on the number and criticality of the backported
fixes. Releases should be coordinated with the validation engineers to ensure
that a tagged release has been tested.
The current maintained LTS branches are 17.11 and 18.11.
At the end of the 2 years, a final X.11.N release will be made and at that
point the LTS branch will no longer be maintained with no further releases.
What changes should be backported
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