From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: DPDK 17.11 LTS Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2017 19:12:45 +0200 Message-ID: <2385365.XUACAUbIaV@xps> References: <1507307118.24598.3.camel@debian.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org, "Mcnamara, John" To: Luca Boccassi , yliu@fridaylinux.org Return-path: Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F9391B1BD for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2017 19:12:46 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <1507307118.24598.3.camel@debian.org> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 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?