From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
To: "Dumitrescu, Cristian" <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
Cc: "Bie, Tiwei" <tiwei.bie@intel.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
"Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
"Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>,
"thomas@monjalon.net" <thomas@monjalon.net>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] proposal of allowing personal/project repos on DPDK.org
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 08:50:12 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170602005012.GA1412@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EB4FA525960D640B5BDFFD6A3D891267BA63032@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com>
On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 09:36:39AM +0000, Dumitrescu, Cristian wrote:
> > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Tiwei Bie
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > We'd like to make a proposal of making DPDK.org allow hosting
> > some personal/project repos, which could be very useful when
> > someone wants to try some experimental projects in DPDK. Many
> > formal/mature opensource communities allow this. Such as:
> >
> > FreeBSD:
> >
> > The main branch is here:
> >
> > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/
> >
> > And developers can try or start experimental projects here:
> >
> > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/user/
> > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/projects/
> > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/vendor/
> > ...
> >
> > We can also find similar things on kernel.org and freedesktop.org:
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/
> > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/
> >
> > But currently on DPDK.org, for the repos of DPDK, besides the main
> > repo, there are just one repo for stable release, few old repos
> > which are obsoleted, and some "-next" repos which are mainly used
> > as the preparation of pull requests for different subsystems of DPDK.
> > Some “-next” repos may be developed individually for a short time
> > when they are created, but will always be merged to the main repo
> > after few releases. We think they are too formal/limited to try
> > new ideas.
> >
> > What we want to proposal is to make DPDK.org allow hosting some
> > DPDK based repos which may be very experimental, which even not
> > be planned to be merged back to the main repo directly, and may
> > be deleted directly if it proves that no one really cares about
> > it. Just like what other opensource communities did, allow some
> > core developers/vendors create their own repos and try ideas on
> > DPDK.org without too many restrictions. We think it can provide
> > people a very convenient way to try ideas in DPDK community and
> > eventually help DPDK grow.
> >
> > Allowing it won't have any negative impact on the existing repos
> > of DPDK, instead, it can help to keep them tidy and clean when
> > someone wants/needs to try some very experimental and big ideas
> > publicly in DPDK as he/she can start it in an experimental repo.
> > An experimental repo can be merged back to the main repo when it
> > proves to be mature and useful, or could just be deleted when no
> > one really cares about it any more.
> >
> > Please share your thoughts on this. Many thanks! :-)
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Tiwei Bie
>
> +1
>
> Fd.io has the sandbox area, why not having something similar on dpdk.org?
+1.
Also, cc'ed Stephen, who is going to chair next tech-board meeting in
next week. Let's have a brief discuss there?
--yliu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-02 0:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-01 5:07 Tiwei Bie
2017-06-01 9:36 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-06-02 0:50 ` Yuanhan Liu [this message]
2017-06-02 15:29 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-06-02 18:37 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-06-02 20:37 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-06-05 7:47 ` Olivier Matz
2017-06-03 2:19 ` Tiwei Bie
2017-06-19 13:29 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-06-20 6:16 ` Tiwei Bie
2017-06-20 7:21 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-06-20 7:28 ` Tiwei Bie
[not found] <1085704550.1206846.1496479255188.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2017-06-03 8:40 ` Manoj Mallawaarachchi
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