New LTS maintainer?

New LTS maintainer?

[Kevin Traynor]

Hi All,

tl;dr we are looking for a new LTS maintainer.

We have 3 maintained LTS releases and a maintainer responsible for each
one as listed at https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#stable .

Xueming has done a great job maintaining 23.11 LTS up to now but is
stepping down as maintainer due to changing work priorities, so we are
looking for a new LTS maintainer to take over 23.11 for it's final year
and a bit.

The main items the role involves:
- Getting a list of fixes from main branch that should be backported to
the LTS branch around time of a new DPDK release
- Backporting the fixes to the LTS branch
- Resolving any trivial conflicts (and complex ones if you want)
- Notifying authors of fixes that could not be backported and
require their assistance
- Notifying authors of fixes that are queued to merge
- Ensuring that CI's are kept green
- Creating release candidates for the validation teams
- Working with validation teams and authors to get a resolution for any
issues that are found during testing
- Writing up release notes etc. and releasing

We have many scripts and tricks to help semi-automate the steps above.

Luca and I will continue as LTS maintainers so we'll be available to
help someone ramp up and only a ping away for any issues.

If anyone is interested please send me a private email reply by Nov 7th
and we'll propose candidates to the techboard.

thanks,
Kevin and Luca.