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From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org, john.mcnamara@intel.com, marko.kovacevic@intel.com
Cc: stable@dpdk.org, bluca@debian.org, yskoh@mellanox.com,
	ferruh.yigit@intel.com, thomas@monjalon.net,
	stephen@networkplumber.org, Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: note validation commitment required for stables
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:44:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190322114400.3745-1-ktraynor@redhat.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20190322114400.mNT8d4ZNdnbBQLPckYcXSXxBjSXUDAxgINj8Cydt30o@z> (raw)

If a stable branch for a specific DPDK release is to proceed,
along with needing a maintainer, there should also be commitment
from major contributors for validation of the releases.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
---
 doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst
index 4214103b3..0130991e2 100644
--- a/doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst
@@ -27,5 +27,6 @@ Stable Releases
 
 Any major release of DPDK can be designated as a Stable Release if a
-maintainer volunteers to maintain it.
+maintainer volunteers to maintain it and there is a commitment from major
+contributors to validate it before releases.
 
 A Stable Release is used to backport fixes from an ``N`` release back to an
-- 
2.20.1


             reply	other threads:[~2019-03-22 11:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-22 11:44 Kevin Traynor [this message]
2019-03-22 11:44 ` Kevin Traynor
2019-03-22 13:30 ` Luca Boccassi
2019-03-22 13:30   ` Luca Boccassi
2019-03-25 10:14 ` Kovacevic, Marko
2019-03-25 10:14   ` Kovacevic, Marko
2019-03-27 17:22 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: note validation and timeline " Kevin Traynor
2019-03-27 17:22   ` Kevin Traynor
2019-03-27 17:25   ` Luca Boccassi
2019-03-27 17:25     ` Luca Boccassi
2019-04-05 13:36     ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-05 13:36       ` Thomas Monjalon

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