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Fri, 5 Apr 2019 09:36:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> To: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com> Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>, john.mcnamara@intel.com, marko.kovacevic@intel.com, stable@dpdk.org Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 15:36:07 +0200 Message-ID: <4799937.eJFYRDrzXT@xps> In-Reply-To: <65000618657f3eef2b1ba5f802ea59bc0ff81d5e.camel@debian.org> References: <20190322114400.3745-1-ktraynor@redhat.com> <20190327172206.16187-1-ktraynor@redhat.com> <65000618657f3eef2b1ba5f802ea59bc0ff81d5e.camel@debian.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: note validation and timeline required for stables X-BeenThere: stable@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches for DPDK stable branches <stable.dpdk.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://mails.dpdk.org/options/stable>, <mailto:stable-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/> List-Post: <mailto:stable@dpdk.org> List-Help: <mailto:stable-request@dpdk.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://mails.dpdk.org/listinfo/stable>, <mailto:stable-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: stable-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "stable" <stable-bounces@dpdk.org> 27/03/2019 18:25, Luca Boccassi: > On Wed, 2019-03-27 at 17:22 +0000, Kevin Traynor wrote: > > If a stable branch for a specific DPDK release is to proceed, > > along with needing a maintainer, there should also be commitment > > from major contributors for validation of the releases. > > > > Also, as decided in the March 27th techboard, to facilitate user > > planning, a release should be designated as a stable release > > no later than 1 month after it's initial master release. > > > > Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com> > > --- > > > > v2: add 1 month deadline to designate as stable release. > > I didn't add v1 acks, as this is something new. > > > > --- a/doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst > > +++ b/doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst > > @@ -27,5 +27,7 @@ Stable Releases > > > > Any major release of DPDK can be designated as a Stable Release if a > > -maintainer volunteers to maintain it. > > +maintainer volunteers to maintain it and there is a commitment from > > major > > +contributors to validate it before releases. If a release is to be > > designated > > +as a Stable Release, it should be done by 1 month after the master > > release. > > > > A Stable Release is used to backport fixes from an ``N`` release > > back to an > > Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> Applied, thanks