[dpdk-ci] The DPDK Symbol Bot

[dpdk-ci] The DPDK Symbol Bot

[Kinsella, Ray]

Hi folks,

I wrote a tool called the 'Symbol Tool' or 'The DPDK Symbol Bot'.
Its current waiting on reviews on the DPDK ML. 

http://patches.dpdk.org/bundle/mdr/The%20Symbol%20Bot/

The tool does a few things:-

1. Counts the number of experimental symbols per release.
2. Identifies 'expired' experimental symbols between two releases. 
3. Supports TUI, CSV and Email output.
4. Harasses contributors of 'expired' experimental symbols over email.

The tool is really designed to be run at roughly release time, similar to update-abi.sh in that respect. The tool currently depends on get-maintainer.sh from the DPDK source tree, therefore I put it in the DPDK main tree. Thomas thought it might be a better fit as CI tool, instead of part of the main source tree.

Few questions:
1. Does moving it to CI make sense to folks?
2. In CI, how do I pick up and use the get-maintainer.sh script from DPDK.
3. In CI, where do I find the DPDK repo?

Thanks,

Ray K