[ovs-discuss] time for another LTS?

[Kevin Traynor]

On 10/18/2018 10:46 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> I've had a number of queries from folks lately about our roadmap for LTS
> releases.  It has, indeed, been a long time since we've had a long-term
> support release (the current LTS is 2.5).  Usually, we've done LTS
> releases before some kind of big architectural change, etc., and so
> we've had no real internal pressure within the project to do it for a
> while.  But it might be a good signal to the community to bring the LTS
> release forward.
> 
> What does everyone think about making the next (2.11) release an LTS?
> 

I think it's a good idea. The current LTS is quite old now, especially
for the DPDK datapath. There is a new DPDK LTS coming out in November
which should be in for OVS 2.11, so it would be a nice combination for a
user to have LTS support for both.

thanks,
Kevin.

> Thanks,
> 
> Ben.
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