Re: [PATCH] version: 24.03-rc0

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>]

On 12/1/2023 2:30 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 11:33:25AM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>> On 12/1/2023 11:13 AM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>>> On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 09:04:10AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>>> 30/11/2023 19:33, Patrick Robb:
>>>>> On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 4:24 AM David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> What it means:
>>>>>> - for the https://dpdk.org/git/dpdk repository, all the branches and
>>>>>> tags are mirrored to https://github.com/DPDK/dpdk as it was done so
>>>>>> far,
>>>>>> - for the https://git.dpdk.org/next/dpdk-next-* repositories, only
>>>>>> branches named "main", "staging" or "for-*" are mirrored to
>>>>>> https://github.com/DPDK/dpdk with a prefix.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you David for clearing some of this up on the CI testing meeting. I
>>>>> think the final loose end was you were wondering which branches within the
>>>>> next-* repos we were running from. I'll paste that below:
>>>>>
>>>>> dpdk-next-crypto: for-main
>>>>> dpdk-next-eventdev: for-main
>>>>> dpdk-next-net: main
>>>>> dpdk-next-net-brcm: main
>>>>> dpdk-next-net-intel: main
>>>>> dpdk-next-net-mlx: main
>>>>> dpdk-next-net-mrvl: for-next-net
>>>>> dpdk-next-virtio: main
>>>>> dpdk-next-baseband: for-main
>>>>
>>>> We should test patches on top of the branch which is validated
>>>> by the tree maintainer and ready to pull.
>>>> This is the default branch (HEAD) of its repository on dpdk.org.
>>>> This is the list of equivalent GitHub branches to use for testing:
>>>>
>>>> 	main
>>>> 	next-baseband-for-main
>>>> 	next-crypto-for-main
>>>> 	next-eventdev-for-main
>>>> 	next-net-for-main-repo
>>>
>>> The (slight) inconsistency here is curious. Is there a reason why this
>>> branch has "repo" on the end and none of the others don't?
>>>
>>
>> No specific reason, it started like that in the past. If the consensus
>> is to go with 'for-main', I can update it.
>>
> In all likelihood it's not a big deal.
> 
> I'm just thinking that for any future automation or tracking, having a very
> consistent naming would be best. For example, in the one-liner I posted for
> generating the graph showing the inter-tree flow, I needed a special regex
> to strip off the "-repo", so that we didn't have a separate target called
> "main-repo" and another called "main".
> 

Agree on above, created 'for-main' branch and will use it now.

But I need help from Thomas/David to delete remote 'for-main-repo' branch.