From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga01.intel.com (mga01.intel.com [192.55.52.88]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FB667CE4 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2017 02:49:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from orsmga005.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.41]) by fmsmga101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 01 Jun 2017 17:49:22 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.39,282,1493708400"; d="scan'208";a="108216836" Received: from yliu-dev.sh.intel.com (HELO yliu-dev) ([10.239.67.162]) by orsmga005.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 01 Jun 2017 17:49:21 -0700 Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 08:50:12 +0800 From: Yuanhan Liu To: "Dumitrescu, Cristian" Cc: "Bie, Tiwei" , "dev@dpdk.org" , "Richardson, Bruce" , "Ananyev, Konstantin" , "thomas@monjalon.net" , Stephen Hemminger Message-ID: <20170602005012.GA1412@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> References: <20170601050730.GA5765@debian-ZGViaWFuCg> <3EB4FA525960D640B5BDFFD6A3D891267BA63032@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <3EB4FA525960D640B5BDFFD6A3D891267BA63032@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] proposal of allowing personal/project repos on DPDK.org X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2017 00:49:25 -0000 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