From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pg1-f176.google.com (mail-pg1-f176.google.com [209.85.215.176]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01C94239 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2019 00:49:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-pg1-f176.google.com with SMTP id e17so137773pgd.2 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:49:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=networkplumber-org.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=0Pt2scnOKlO1JLelvloWxx95Ag7RhKZlZUETSEwcMy8=; b=oOax39H8yU0l70R6kxm6Zdz2vK3S+NjCMhwphwwa8w5vjBiSE++EZFjPDTT6lxQ1Rl WjShSce6teHlwTTjc9URYKISX1LTtMMgYyaQ0L8f1Oe6T3/xI5T4NFDQ/qzdTEV5ReiS ZoBWC1uvxqaP3wqNWK4qCKmJiXF98heMV7whqe1LsJPYjVxmcga3FVI1XpDvccyp88Iv 5ar3EufG2s9oSkc6Z8WnqiSw5zTJoBIaBWhe+6p0+imIEOm6fkpDx5DkCmyJgbMrDKej Pbo+tR0XWdni6E5/Itr2bLEMIV6GFQ7hEbDxMRJbhMO0e6Uw6+10DmCF65t0oNSpvXl1 DgWw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=0Pt2scnOKlO1JLelvloWxx95Ag7RhKZlZUETSEwcMy8=; b=Ntq8QCcrMaoDKw7YNFQqoSCpPD+RJxnMyRa9zejqJ84ewpagsgDf9q34c/gl4uFquO GX4R1CaH1iIE4Q6GVXAr7AP+KG2/HDqaXsFmqAJ5MxNCgVk77Q2F+eyzbdatvYudZzDZ ZaCgOJFssCZSysMTAfFzf2dzq4a6xVyD0fh72MBkWxe7JcNdAcrFG/e5rNAFAmoUC5ZW CH38cKIxQFgHkFpRb+V3kt4nVS6V/fVS25s74q/NYFS9IM/mHDalSa/zQTIviHLUN/iB jXmaCMqW9e2hNAQtSKqPm7Gc/OejHE0Dp86/846fsIlkqSfjyTdz33csfL7TThxXI6r9 S0sA== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAXv1SkxRHrst+N1i/yyKemkFcZi3vNycg9VEGFuwf/m74gbrDoT XaEd47M6JE/WHUNNMMlsJRmjjw== X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqyoc6UxNvg68ug6I60ouTdHvN6UuneOCOPzQihp/UUbiIoYw7/9jb7YU6xni0BLvHGtF8vlsQ== X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:a702:: with SMTP id w2mr42812272plq.341.1552434579946; Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:49:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shemminger-XPS-13-9360 (204-195-22-127.wavecable.com. [204.195.22.127]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id j14sm14480231pfe.12.2019.03.12.16.49.39 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:49:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:49:36 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Thomas Monjalon Cc: Luca Boccassi , Kevin Traynor , "dev@dpdk.org" , Yongseok Koh , Ferruh Yigit , John McNamara , Aaron Conole , "Walker, Benjamin" , Jay Rolette Message-ID: <20190312164936.666f7dd5@shemminger-XPS-13-9360> In-Reply-To: <4664304.LLR2pzfpgk@xps> References: <0989b56a-f480-416c-e0a7-3e562c9b990b@redhat.com> <834f085314caae4091cfc02c5c904a6efaed3141.camel@debian.org> <4664304.LLR2pzfpgk@xps> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK short term stable maintenance X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 23:49:41 -0000 On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 21:51:37 +0100 Thomas Monjalon 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.