From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga02.intel.com (mga02.intel.com [134.134.136.20]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC59569C8 for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2016 21:01:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fmsmga002.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.26]) by orsmga101.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 01 Jun 2016 12:01:50 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.26,402,1459839600"; d="scan'208";a="993239701" Received: from irsmsx107.ger.corp.intel.com ([163.33.3.99]) by fmsmga002.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 01 Jun 2016 12:01:49 -0700 Received: from irsmsx103.ger.corp.intel.com ([169.254.3.240]) by IRSMSX107.ger.corp.intel.com ([169.254.10.96]) with mapi id 14.03.0248.002; Wed, 1 Jun 2016 20:01:48 +0100 From: "Mcnamara, John" To: Yuanhan Liu CC: Christian Ehrhardt , dev , Stephen Hemminger , Thomas Monjalon Thread-Topic: [dpdk-dev] Suggestions for the dpdk stable tree Thread-Index: AQHRhZz59xGxeUUk6kuOGthHJTJDjp/BwT2AgAB+F/CAA9hwgIAPS6jg Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 19:01:48 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20160523022157.GH5641@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <20160523022157.GH5641@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> Accept-Language: en-GB, en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-ctpclassification: CTP_IC x-titus-metadata-40: eyJDYXRlZ29yeUxhYmVscyI6IiIsIk1ldGFkYXRhIjp7Im5zIjoiaHR0cDpcL1wvd3d3LnRpdHVzLmNvbVwvbnNcL0ludGVsMyIsImlkIjoiYTVkY2QwMmQtNjc1Mi00ODJiLWE2NzQtNDcyZGIwNmRlNDVmIiwicHJvcHMiOlt7Im4iOiJDVFBDbGFzc2lmaWNhdGlvbiIsInZhbHMiOlt7InZhbHVlIjoiQ1RQX0lDIn1dfV19LCJTdWJqZWN0TGFiZWxzIjpbXSwiVE1DVmVyc2lvbiI6IjE1LjkuNi42IiwiVHJ1c3RlZExhYmVsSGFzaCI6InhWTmpMNE5HNE1Lb1BMeUlKeUFcL1JMeEpBb3l5R1I5WVRYang0VU1RR1E4PSJ9 x-originating-ip: [163.33.239.182] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Suggestions for the dpdk stable tree X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 19:01:52 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: Yuanhan Liu [mailto:yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com] > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 3:22 AM > To: Mcnamara, John > Cc: Christian Ehrhardt ; dev > ; Stephen Hemminger ; Thomas > Monjalon > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Suggestions for the dpdk stable tree >=20 > > We have been looking at identifying a maintainer and validation enginee= r > internally to support the effort but haven't be able to finalize that. > Once we do we will come back to the mailing list with a proposal and a > request for comments. >=20 > I would nominate myself as the LTS tree maintainer, if it makes sense to > have one. Hi Yuanhan, Thanks for putting your name forward. I think your experience as the dpdk-n= ext-virtio maintainer will help with this. > > We would probably be looking at 16.04 or even 16.07 as the basis for th= e > LTS at this stage. >=20 > Just one opinion from the view of vhost: since 16.07 is a vhost ABI/API > refactoring release, I'd suggest to base on 16.07, and then we could have > less conflicts to apply later bug fix patches. Agreed. At this stage 16.07 make more sense. I'll start a separate discussion thread about how the LTS process would wor= k to see if we can get some consensus from interested parties. John. --=20