Ceph » Stable releases

Introduction¶

Backporting and the maintenance of a stable release begins when a new stable Ceph release 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 is published. This repeats until the lifetime of the stable release comes to an end.

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

Add a new stable release¶

HOWTO start backporting a stable release

Add a new point release¶

HOWTO start working on a new point release

Prepare a new point release¶

HOWTO update the inventory
HOWTO summarize test results
HOWTO backport commits
HOWTO create an integration branch
HOWTO describe a test result
HOWTO synchronize pull requests from different repositories

Retire a stable release¶

HOWTO retire a stable release