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[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Joachim" == Joachim Nilsson <troglobit at gmail.com> writes:

 > On Fri May 22, 2020 at 1:29 PM CEST, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
 >> [snip]
 >> It would be good to add something like this to the manual. Would you be
 >> interested in working on that?

 > Sure, how about something like this, or were you thinking about something
 > more?  I can whip up a real patch for further comments.

 > --8<-----------------------------------------------------------------
 > == Release Engineering

 > The Buildroot project makes quarterly releases with monthly bugfix
 > releases.  The first release of each year is a long term support
 > release, LTS.

 >  - 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, ...

 > 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 until the first bugfix release of the next
 > LTS, e.g., 2020.02.x is supported until 2021.02.1 is released.

 > === Development

 > Each release cycle consist of two months of development on the +master+
 > branch and one month stabilization before the release is made.  During
 > this phase no new features are added to +master+, only bugfixes.

 > The stabilization phase starts with tagging +-rc1+, every week until the
 > release, another release candidate is tagged.

 > To handle new features and version bumps during the stabilization phase,
 > a +next+ branch may be created for these features.  Once the current
 > release has been made, the +next+ branch is merged into +master+ and
 > the development cycle for the next release continues there.

Looks good to me, thanks. Could you send it as a git patch for easy
applying?

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard