Re: New LTS maintainer?

[Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>]

On 29/10/2025 16:30, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> tl;dr we are looking for a new LTS maintainer.
> 

A big thank you to Shani Peretz of Nvidia who volunteered and was
unanimously approved as the new LTS maintainer for 23.11 at the 12th
November techboard meeting.

> We have 3 maintained LTS releases and a maintainer responsible for each
> one as listed at https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#stable .
> 
> Xueming has done a great job maintaining 23.11 LTS up to now but is
> stepping down as maintainer due to changing work priorities, so we are
> looking for a new LTS maintainer to take over 23.11 for it's final year
> and a bit.
> 
> The main items the role involves:
> - Getting a list of fixes from main branch that should be backported to
> the LTS branch around time of a new DPDK release
> - Backporting the fixes to the LTS branch
> - Resolving any trivial conflicts (and complex ones if you want)
> - Notifying authors of fixes that could not be backported and
> require their assistance
> - Notifying authors of fixes that are queued to merge
> - Ensuring that CI's are kept green
> - Creating release candidates for the validation teams
> - Working with validation teams and authors to get a resolution for any
> issues that are found during testing
> - Writing up release notes etc. and releasing
> 
> We have many scripts and tricks to help semi-automate the steps above.
> 
> Luca and I will continue as LTS maintainers so we'll be available to
> help someone ramp up and only a ping away for any issues.
> 
> If anyone is interested please send me a private email reply by Nov 7th
> and we'll propose candidates to the techboard.
> 
> thanks,
> Kevin and Luca.