From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ig0-f173.google.com (mail-ig0-f173.google.com [209.85.213.173]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BF8A2C08 for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2016 10:29:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-ig0-f173.google.com with SMTP id gy3so31364507igb.1 for ; Fri, 08 Apr 2016 01:29:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc; bh=mIak98v3+Al5yaUHM0L1q84HF/ihQ238JFTLksgF7Og=; b=FFgamh+nHDajCjg0O3Vnc6HEfd0oOnCkwqaBYBd7KyNN0cELZnIngC2tnD7K7+f1UX 68JreVNmDMzx87LcBfDhbPniBilfHi1kvMqFlOqhLUAOGcWORKiVfjiJsZ4WCBm48dbI QhCd/TAZOcM62lGJVyM+RKvmA+QU+c4fk/c97aFKi9FPvHmc9FuPnjeGAoKvplQOtvob mG8sn9PYMSrGCcGOTmtaE9enRjKysEZp3qE7CFJEmBnVzZ6GUvsJi5e4jPEbrag4rka9 VMTF7Q8ZXEgGygcnOyfSnZhcwop2OzcejDJ8YUn5hIXnZrqYEZ3Yb5HMwcMCkKnJ+bf9 LG+Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc; bh=mIak98v3+Al5yaUHM0L1q84HF/ihQ238JFTLksgF7Og=; b=i+/+bN2WrF3yAUtku5y9aLE9/hAVJws4UeKctEfrQA3HY6sUZ1Wqfwla6sRyZDWe+y 8uivsLzpInLUM9/8debK7gojvgIgeC5sIDnFUKDOzG/EDHSvw7yA0vun7kK4pAQZeSAC 3cuTX1xH5PwoB4m1V3nH8YVUhWIbOEba79oeI2jSDqa4L8SOUw5Q89RmlrLfgmLgEXUn 4TDgklmwV00XnWgwUgiCCIoX8IXon2ampgQx8DHMdlyXF5D2BfBieLg2D8pukpoV8XAX 7ieFmVrKVnFRKeKZqGFkP1VX6FtJkfCt8flKaZbbn6IyivRjYTtBlMD+KAacAXVCjuU2 K5zQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJIE7M6PMR2QrEwl6bc37iDKzRZT2DfooCEllL88bbcptJIn3pCnvu0WlFjBbsPA/Pc5uEDBqf66R94TEA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.183.39 with SMTP id ej7mr2144765igc.95.1460104150600; Fri, 08 Apr 2016 01:29:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.79.112.68 with HTTP; Fri, 8 Apr 2016 01:29:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20160407215213.GB28667@mhcomputing.net> References: <1610488.T03Kyi0Reo@xps13> <5911950.ZPQvAWoePl@xps13> <5706295A.3000406@redhat.com> <570649C7.2030709@redhat.com> <20160407215213.GB28667@mhcomputing.net> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 10:29:10 +0200 Message-ID: From: Marc Sune To: Matthew Hall Cc: Panu Matilainen , Thomas Monjalon , dev@dpdk.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.15 Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] On DPDK ABI policy X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 08:29:11 -0000 2016-04-07 23:52 GMT+02:00 Matthew Hall : > On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 02:51:35PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > LTS releases could help the situation somewhat, but then again > > people tend to still want those new fancy things backported (you > > know, have the cake and eat it too) but that can't be done because > > of ABI breakage, so they're forced to run the latest version anyway. > > RH and Debian / Ubuntu don't put features in LTS except extremely rarely. > Generally only if there's severe functionality breakage or security issues > and > the rest is ignored, and for good reason, as this is much more reliable and > simple and predictable. > > If people are so irrational they can't deal with that simple of a policy, > NEXT_ABI, LTS, etc. is never going to help them. > > If people like to have backported stuff, yes of course we can make trees > and > branches for this, they are basically free in Git. But at that point > community > people in need of LTS forks of features need to step up to the plate to > help > out. > Completely agree. Marc > > Matthew. >