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

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

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.