New LTS maintainer?

New LTS maintainer?

[Kevin Traynor]

Hi All,

tl;dr we are looking for a new LTS maintainer.

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.

Re: New LTS maintainer?

[Kevin Traynor]

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.

RE: New LTS maintainer?

[Asaf Penso]

Good luck Shani!

Regards,
Asaf Penso

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, 10 December 2025 12:42
>To: dev@dpdk.org
>Cc: Shani Peretz <shperetz@nvidia.com>; Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
>Subject: Re: New LTS maintainer?
>
>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.