Re: DPDK 17.11 LTS

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

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 :)
You will have to send me a public SSH key.

Yuanhan, how do you prefer to split the workload?