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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: Proposed schedule dates for DPDK 17.08,
	17.11 and 18.02
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 15:02:14 +0200
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Hi,

04/05/2017 18:52, Mcnamara, John:
> The current 17.08 schedule dates are:
> 
>     17.08
>         * Proposal deadline:    May      28, 2017
>         * Integration deadline: June     29, 2017
>         * Release:              August    1, 2017

I think these dates are good and must be strictly respected.
It would be very bad (at least for me) to release later in August.

> The following are proposed dates for 17.11 and 18.02.
> 
>     17.11
>         * Proposal deadline:    August    25, 2017

As we can see in the following picture [1],
we work less in August and tend to send the proposals at the last minute.
[1] https://s12.postimg.org/g9uluz9u5/patchesv1.png
I don't know what can be done to avoid having hard days of reviews
after the August deadline.
Should we cut this period before or let a bit more days?

>         * Integration deadline: September 29, 2017
>         * Release:              November   2, 2017

I'm OK for these ones.

>     18.02
>         * Proposal deadline:    November  24, 2017
>         * Integration deadline: December  29, 2017

The Christmas / New Year holidays will be from Dec 25 to Jan 1.
I think we could move the integration deadline to Jan 5.

>         * Release:              February   2, 2018

The Chinese Spring Festival will be from Feb 15 to 21.
So we have a good margin.

> These dates need to be discussed/agreed in the community since there are a
> lot of different holidays in these periods: August holidays, Christmas,
> New Year, Spring Festival.