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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Yuanhan Liu <yliu@fridaylinux.org>, Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK 17.11 LTS
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09/10/2017 03:44, Yuanhan Liu:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 07:12:45PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 06/10/2017 18:25, Luca Boccassi:
> > > On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 16:05 +0000, Mcnamara, John wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > At the recent DPDK 2017 Userspace in Dublin it was agreed that we
> > > > should have a DPDK 17.11 LTS with 2 year support that would run in
> > > > parallel with the DPDK 16.11 LTS.
> > > > 
> > > > However, if order for this to happen the community will have to
> > > > provide a maintainer, either for 17.11 LTS or for 16.11 LTS (to allow
> > > > Yuanhan to move from 16.11 LTS maintenance to 17.11 LTS maintenance).
> > > > 
> > > > Ideally this person should come from one of the OSVs. Either way if
> > > > we don't get a volunteer we won't have a 17.11 LTS.
> > > > 
> > > > Volunteers please step forward.
> > > > 
> > > > John
> > > 
> > > Hello John,
> > > 
> > > I was just about to write you :-)
> > > 
> > > I am available to volunteer. I've just got permission from AT&T
> > > management to dedicate some working hours every week to the project
> > > (this is the reason why I didn't say anything on the spot - I needed to
> > > ask first due to the time requirements).
> > > 
> > > I am fine with either 16.11 or 17.11, whichever Yuanhan prefers.
> > > 
> > > Thanks!
> > 
> > Thanks a lot Luca, and welcome :)
> 
> +1 :)
> 
> > You will have to send me a public SSH key.
> 
> And we may should have a short chat, about the scripts I used for managing
> the stable/LTS releases.
> 
> > Yuanhan, how do you prefer to split the workload?
> 
> I'd prefer 17.11.
> 
> Thanks.

You mean that you are interested in managing 17.11 LTS yourself?
So Luca would become the new maintainer of 16.11 LTS?

Handshake?