Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK short term stable maintenance

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 21:51:37 +0100
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:

> 12/03/2019 21:46, Luca Boccassi:
> > On Tue, 2019-03-12 at 19:12 +0000, Kevin Traynor wrote:  
> > > So what to do with short term stables? Some choices could be:
> > > 
> > > - continue with short term stables for n.02/05/08
> > > - ad-hoc support for short term stables where community have an
> > > interest
> > > in a particular one
> > > - have a maintainer to backport fixes on a public branch, but have no
> > > releases, or have unvalidated/best effort validated releases
> > > - no short term stable branches/releases
> > > 
> > > Probably there's other ideas too. Obviously most of the above would
> > > need
> > > resources from the community to proceed. One advantage of not having
> > > short term stables is that there might be more resources available
> > > for
> > > maintenance/validation of master and LTS DPDK releases.  
> [...]
> > 
> > My 2c is that, unless someone steps up not only for the maintainer role
> > but also for the validation effort, we should cancel the short term
> > releases.  
> 
> Yes it looks reasonnable.
> So we must question the community at each major release
> to know if it will maintained, how long, or not.
> If there are volunteers, we must clearly state in the stable release notes
> which areas are validated.

The validation is the major hurdle.