Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v3] docs/manual: update 'releases' to reflect LTS changes

[Thomas Perale via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

In reply of:
> With the release of 2025.02, LTS releases are now made every two years
> with a 3-year support.
> 
> This reflect the table showed at https://lts.buildroot.org/#releases.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Perale <thomas.perale@mind.be>

Applied to 2025.02.x & 2026.05.x. Thanks

> ---
> v1 --> v2: Took the suggestion from https://lore.kernel.org/r/<a00e615b-c2b2-42d9-b525-8852fc0d74a4@grenoble.cnrs.fr>
> v2 --> v3: Took the suggestion from https://lore.kernel.org/r/<393511ee-1b43-4e3c-bc64-e71c1d900c0a@gmx.de> . All the releases are stable and divided in two categories: LTS & non-LTS. Also updated the lts website page to reflect those changes.
> ---
>  docs/manual/release-engineering.adoc | 22 ++++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/manual/release-engineering.adoc b/docs/manual/release-engineering.adoc
> index 0cf38183f9..cbd310d682 100644
> --- a/docs/manual/release-engineering.adoc
> +++ b/docs/manual/release-engineering.adoc
> @@ -5,19 +5,21 @@
>  == Release Engineering
>  === Releases
>  
> -The Buildroot project makes quarterly releases with monthly bugfix
> -releases.  The first release of each year is a long term support
> -release, LTS.
> +The Buildroot project makes quarterly stable releases with monthly bugfix
> +releases. Starting with 2025.02, the first release of every odd-numbered year
> +is a long-term support (LTS) release supported for three years.
>  
> - - Quarterly releases: 2020.02, 2020.05, 2020.08, and 2020.11
> - - Bugfix releases: 2020.02.1, 2020.02.2, ...
> - - LTS releases: 2020.02, 2021.02, ...
> + - LTS releases: 2025.02, 2027.02, 2029.02 ...
> + - Non-LTS releases: 2025.05, 2025.08, 2025.11, 2026.02, ...
> + - Bugfix releases: 2025.02.1, 2025.02.2, ...
>  
> -Releases are supported until the first bugfix release of the next
> -release, e.g., 2020.05.x is EOL when 2020.08.1 is released.
> +LTS releases are supported for three years, with a one-year overlap with the
> +next LTS release, e.g., 2025.02.x is EOL when 2028.02 is released.
>  
> -LTS releases are supported until the first bugfix release of the next
> -LTS, e.g., 2020.02.x is supported until 2021.02.1 is released.
> +Non-LTS releases are supported until the next release, e.g., 2025.05.x is EOL
> +when 2025.08 is released.
> +
> +See the table at https://lts.buildroot.org/#releases[lts.buildroot.org].
>  
>  === Development
>  
> -- 
> 2.55.0
> 
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