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doc/guides: mention 17.11 LTS in contributing/stable

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PATCH 1/1 doc/guides: mention 17.11 LTS in contributing/stable

From: Luca Boccassi <[email protected]>

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 A stable release can be designated as an LTS release based on community
-agreement and a commitment from a maintainer. An LTS release will have a
-maintenance duration of 2 years.
+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.
 
-The current DPDK LTS release is 16.11.
+The current DPDK LTS releases are 16.11 and 17.11.
 
 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
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Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc/guides: mention 17.11 LTS in contributing/stable

From: Luca Boccassi <[email protected]>

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 A stable release can be designated as an LTS release based on community -

agreement and a commitment from a maintainer. An LTS release will have a - maintenance duration of 2 years.

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+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
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years.

Strictly speaking we didn't agree that at Userspace. We said that we would evaluate a 18.11 release next year. However, I am okay with this statement since it probably reflects what the reality will be.

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A stable release can be designated as an LTS release based on community -
agreement and a commitment from a maintainer. An LTS release will have a - maintenance duration of 2 years.

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+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.

Strictly speaking we didn't agree that at Userspace. We said that we would evaluate a 18.11 release next year. However, I am okay with this statement since it probably reflects what the reality will be.

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Applied, thanks