On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 02:40:19PM -0500, Tyler Hicks (Microsoft) wrote: > On 2022-10-20 10:26:06, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 08:25:35AM +0900, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I saw that the projected EOL of LTS 5.15 is Oct 2023. > > > How likely is it that the date will be extended? I'm guessing it's > > > pretty likely, given that Android uses it. > > > > Android is the only user that has talked to me about this kernel > > version so far. Please see: > > http://kroah.com/log/blog/2021/02/03/helping-out-with-lts-kernel-releases/ > > for what I require in order to keep an LTS kernel going longer than 2 > > years. > > Microsoft is also interested in a longer lifetime for v5.15 LTS. An > additional year should meet our needs. Wonderful, thanks for letting us know. > We are aware of your "Helping Out ..." blog post and have been making > improvements to be of more assistance. Kelsey and Allen (Cc'ed) have > been doing -rc testing of v5.15 -rc releases and reporting the results > to the list, on behalf of Microsoft. Testing of the -rc releases is > mostly manual at this point, so we don't get every release tested before > the release happens, but we're working on improving our processes and > having builds/tests kick off automatically so that you can rely on us > even more. We should have a much better system in place to help with > testing and reporting by the time Oct 2023 rolls around. :) Don't you all use kernelci already? Doesn't that fit into your testing environment already to make this easier? And yes, I have seen the testing results, thank you for that. If you all want to be added to the initial -rc1 email announcement to help trigger any build systems that way, just let me know. thanks, greg k-h
