I'm sorry Patrick that it gives you more work.
Your proposals below don't look possible because a tag is something fixed forever.
We had an ABI issue in the initial tag so we cannot use the tag v22.11 as planned.
I don't see how we can better plan except having more tests on release candidates.


07/12/2022 19:00, Patrick Robb:
> Hello,
>
> Community Lab team members are wondering whether it is possible to bump
> v22.11 to include at least this patch. We have an existing codebase which
> relies on a vXX.XX scheme for producing ABI references. We parse that out
> at different places in our code, so fixing this to handle vXX.XX.X will
> require some changes on our end. We can do that, but it puts the timeline
> on turning on ABI testing at the community lab back some. A v22.11 tagged
> release with this patch would allow for us to turn on ABI testing
> immediately. There was also a suggestion that having the "base" tag (like
> the simple v22.11) point to the latest revision is a more standard version
> naming approach and may be more intuitive than what is being used currently.
>
> If that is not possible, we will update our code to be able to refer to a
> vXX.XX.X tag for producing the ABI reference. If we adopt this approach, we
> would like to request that with future releases, a "vXX.XX.0" tag could
> always be made available for us to produce ABI references from. That way,
> we can prepare for turning on ABI testing knowing beforehand the tag name
> we will be using.
>
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 7:25 AM Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com> wrote:
>
> > On 12/6/2022 10:18 AM, David Marchand wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 11:13 AM Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>
> > wrote:
> > >> On 12/5/2022 3:37 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > >>> 05/12/2022 14:47, Akhil Goyal:
> > >>>> But adding a tag on same repo is more convenient from developer point
> > of view.
> > >>>> However, it is my personal view, others may differ.
> > >>>
> > >>> From developer point of view, you should use
> > devtools/test-meson-builds.sh
> > >>> which does the "git clone" for you.
> > >>>
> > >>> This is what I have in ~/.config/dpdk/devel.config
> > >>> export DPDK_ABI_REF_DIR=$root/dpdk-build/abiref
> > >>> export DPDK_ABI_REF_VERSION=v22.11.1
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> Does it help to update 'test-meson-builds.sh' to use an environment
> > >> variable to select which repo to clone?
> > >> If so, I can send a patch for it.
> > >
> > > I was wondering too...
> > > I would expect most maintainers have the stable repo in their config
> > > but it would not hurt to handle the case when they don't for others.
> > >
> > > +1
> >
> > Sent following if it helps:
> > https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=26015