Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] version: 20.05-rc0

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

27/02/2020 12:23, David Marchand:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 12:17 PM Bruce Richardson
> <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 03:01:04PM +0100, David Marchand wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 2:55 PM Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 26/02/2020 14:38, David Marchand:
> > > > > Start a new release cycle with empty release notes.
> > > > > ABI must now be checked with v20.02 as a reference.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> > > > > ---
> > > > >  .travis.yml                            |   4 +
> > > > >  ABI_VERSION                            |   2 +-
> > > > >  VERSION                                |   2 +-
> > > > >  doc/guides/rel_notes/index.rst         |   1 +
> > > > >  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst | 139 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > > >  5 files changed, 146 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > > >  create mode 100644 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst
> > > >
> > > > Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > --- a/.travis.yml
> > > > > +++ b/.travis.yml
> > > > > +env:
> > > > > +  global:
> > > > > +    - REF_GIT_TAG=v20.02
> > > >
> > > > One question: why REF_GIT_TAG was not needed in Travis during 20.02?
> > >
> > > The .ci/linux-build.sh script has a default value for parameters.
> > > http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tree/.ci/linux-build.sh#n71&h=v20.02
> > >
> > > This could be removed, so that we only have explicit values in the
> > > .travis.yml configuration.
> > > No strong opinion keeping them.
> > >
> > Why do we need to update the git ref tag at all. Since these releases are
> > all ABI compatible with each other, can we not leave the checks still to be
> > against 19.11?
> 
> Checking only with 19.11 (major abi) would not detected breakage
> between minor versions.
> Like the meter symbols that entered the 20.0.1 version.

We check that new ABI, introduced in a minor ABI version, is not broken.