Release goals for 22.XX

[Paul Spooren]

On 9/30/21 10:01, Nick wrote:
>
> 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?

Some targets already moved to 5.10 as default, feel free to add 5.15 as 
the new TESTING kernel there.

> 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.

It seems fine found a okay'ish middle ground between DSA and non-DSA, so 
I'd not make DSA blocking for the next release but continue to integrate 
it where ever possible (and stable).

Paul