Release goals for 22.XX

[Nick]

On 9/30/21 21:43, Daniel Golle wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 09:18:06PM +0300, Stijn Tintel wrote:
>> On 30/09/2021 01:19, Nick wrote:
>>> On 9/29/21 22:28, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>>>
>>>> kernel 5.10:
>>>> We should get all targets to kernel 5.10. All targets which are not
>>>> on kernel 5.10 when we branch off should get removed.
>>> Kernel 5.15 could be also a LTS Kernel that should be released in the
>>> end of October? Why not aiming for it if we plan to release in 2022?
>> This would undoubtedly delay the next release, as we've seen in the
>> past. We don't even have all targets on 5.10, which was released roughly
>> 9 months ago. You do the math. If we target 5.15, I doubt we'll even see
>> a release in 2022.
> I also believe we should do the next release based on Linux 5.10 and
> try branching still this year (which I believe is realistic to make all
> targets build with 5.10 till then), so we can target April 2022 as time
> of release.
Sounds good, so we can go on with 5.15 when it is released?
I think the most problematic thing is if we want to have DSA support for 
all targets as requirement. Not sure if this is possible.

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