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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
* *no hammer backport 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
* 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 leads to sign-off on a release]]
# [[HOWTO write the release notes]]
h4. Retire a stable release
* [[HOWTO retire a stable release]]