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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 * "hammer *no hammer backport status":http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11353 status yet* and "all issues marked hammer":http://tracker.ceph.com/projects/ceph/issues?query_id=77 * "giant backport status":http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11153 and "all issues marked giant":http://tracker.ceph.com/projects/ceph/issues?query_id=68 * "firefly backport status":http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11090 and "all issues marked firefly":http://tracker.ceph.com/projects/ceph/issues?query_id=75 * "dumpling backport status":http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/10560 and *no more issues marked dumpling* h3. Leads * Ceph : Sage Weil * rados : Samuel Just * radosgw / rgw : Yehuda Sadeh * CephFS / fs : Gregory Farnum * RBD : Josh Durgin 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 document user visible changes]] # [[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]] # [[HOWTO get the Ceph lead to decide if it is time for a point release]] # [[HOWTO get the leads to sign-off on a release]] # [[HOWTO write the release notes]] h4. Retire a stable release * [[HOWTO retire a stable release]]