Re: [PATCH] version: 24.03-rc0

[Patrick Robb <probb@iol.unh.edu>]

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On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 11:36 AM Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com> wrote:

> On 12/1/2023 2:30 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 11:33:25AM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> >> On 12/1/2023 11:13 AM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 09:04:10AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> >>>> 30/11/2023 19:33, Patrick Robb:
> >>>>> On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 4:24 AM David Marchand <
> david.marchand@redhat.com>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> What it means:
> >>>>>> - for the https://dpdk.org/git/dpdk repository, all the branches
> and
> >>>>>> tags are mirrored to https://github.com/DPDK/dpdk as it was done so
> >>>>>> far,
> >>>>>> - for the https://git.dpdk.org/next/dpdk-next-* repositories, only
> >>>>>> branches named "main", "staging" or "for-*" are mirrored to
> >>>>>> https://github.com/DPDK/dpdk with a prefix.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thank you David for clearing some of this up on the CI testing
> meeting. I
> >>>>> think the final loose end was you were wondering which branches
> within the
> >>>>> next-* repos we were running from. I'll paste that below:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> dpdk-next-crypto: for-main
> >>>>> dpdk-next-eventdev: for-main
> >>>>> dpdk-next-net: main
> >>>>> dpdk-next-net-brcm: main
> >>>>> dpdk-next-net-intel: main
> >>>>> dpdk-next-net-mlx: main
> >>>>> dpdk-next-net-mrvl: for-next-net
> >>>>> dpdk-next-virtio: main
> >>>>> dpdk-next-baseband: for-main
> >>>>
> >>>> We should test patches on top of the branch which is validated
> >>>> by the tree maintainer and ready to pull.
> >>>> This is the default branch (HEAD) of its repository on dpdk.org.
> >>>> This is the list of equivalent GitHub branches to use for testing:
> >>>>
> >>>>    main
> >>>>    next-baseband-for-main
> >>>>    next-crypto-for-main
> >>>>    next-eventdev-for-main
> >>>>    next-net-for-main-repo
> >>>
> >>> The (slight) inconsistency here is curious. Is there a reason why this
> >>> branch has "repo" on the end and none of the others don't?
> >>>
> >>
> >> No specific reason, it started like that in the past. If the consensus
> >> is to go with 'for-main', I can update it.
> >>
> > In all likelihood it's not a big deal.
> >
> > I'm just thinking that for any future automation or tracking, having a
> very
> > consistent naming would be best. For example, in the one-liner I posted
> for
> > generating the graph showing the inter-tree flow, I needed a special
> regex
> > to strip off the "-repo", so that we didn't have a separate target called
> > "main-repo" and another called "main".
> >
>
> Agree on above, created 'for-main' branch and will use it now.
>
> But I need help from Thomas/David to delete remote 'for-main-repo' branch.
>
> Great. So for CI testing, we will use dpdk-*-for-main when possible.
next-virtio only has for-next-net and staging, so we will use for-next-net,
unless we want to rename that one too to have a true standard.

For staging branches, Based on TB voting I did add a work item to the 2024
lab SOW for "on-push" staging branch testing, which we will do via these
GitHub branches (so like, next-virtio-staging).

Thanks!

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