Ceph » Stable releases

h3. Introduction

Backporting and the maintenance of a stable release begins when a new "stable Ceph release":http://ceph.com/docs/master/releases is published. Commits from the master branch are cherry-picked to the stable branch and run through integration and upgrade tests. After a few weeks a "point release":http://ceph.com/docs/master/releases is published. This repeats until the "lifetime of the stable release":http://ceph.com/docs/master/releases comes to an end. Backporting is focused on fixing bugs and development on the master branch is expected to add new features but both share the "same workflow":http://ceph.com/docs/master/dev/development-workflow/.

h3. Overview of the backports in progress

* "Giant":http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11153

* "Firefly":http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11090

* "Dumpling":http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/10560

h3. HOWTO

The following describes in detail and in chronological order, the steps to follow for backporting and maintaining stable releases.

h4. Add a new stable release

* [[HOWTO start backporting a stable release]]

h4. Add a new point release

* [[HOWTO start working on a new point release]]

h4. Prepare a new point release

# [[HOWTO schedule an issue for backporting]]

# [[HOWTO update the inventory]]

# [[HOWTO backport commits]]

# [[HOWTO populate the integration branch]]

# [[HOWTO run integration and upgrade tests]]

# [[HOWTO describe a test result]] inline or [[HOWTO summarize test results]] in a separate issue

# [[HOWTO merge commits from the integration branch]]

# [[HOWTO synchronize pull requests from different repositories]]

# [[HOWTO resolve issues that are Pending Backport]]

h4. Retire a stable release

* [[HOWTO retire a stable release]]