From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Boccassi Subject: Re: DPDK 17.11 LTS Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2017 17:25:18 +0100 Message-ID: <1507307118.24598.3.camel@debian.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: "Mcnamara, John" , "dev@dpdk.org" Return-path: Received: from mail-wr0-f173.google.com (mail-wr0-f173.google.com [209.85.128.173]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 515941B19A for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2017 18:25:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wr0-f173.google.com with SMTP id u5so13224104wrc.5 for ; Fri, 06 Oct 2017 09:25:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 16:05 +0000, Mcnamara, John wrote: > Hi, >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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). >=20 > 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. >=20 > Volunteers please step forward. >=20 > 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! --=20 Kind regards, Luca Boccassi