From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: DPDK 17.11 LTS
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2017 09:49:27 +0200
Message-ID: <3748687.9eGIfCGZ7i@xps>
References: <B27915DBBA3421428155699D51E4CFE23EDC116A@IRSMSX103.ger.corp.intel.com>
 <2385365.XUACAUbIaV@xps> <20171009014420.GG1545@yliu-home>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, "Mcnamara, John" <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
To: Yuanhan Liu <yliu@fridaylinux.org>, Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Return-path: <dev-bounces@dpdk.org>
Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com
 [66.111.4.25]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FB351AF03
 for <dev@dpdk.org>; Mon,  9 Oct 2017 09:49:29 +0200 (CEST)
In-Reply-To: <20171009014420.GG1545@yliu-home>
List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions <dev.dpdk.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/options/dev>,
 <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/>
List-Post: <mailto:dev@dpdk.org>
List-Help: <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/dev>,
 <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe>
Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org
Sender: "dev" <dev-bounces@dpdk.org>

09/10/2017 03:44, Yuanhan Liu:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 07:12:45PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 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 :)
> 
> +1 :)
> 
> > You will have to send me a public SSH key.
> 
> And we may should have a short chat, about the scripts I used for managing
> the stable/LTS releases.
> 
> > Yuanhan, how do you prefer to split the workload?
> 
> I'd prefer 17.11.
> 
> Thanks.

You mean that you are interested in managing 17.11 LTS yourself?
So Luca would become the new maintainer of 16.11 LTS?

Handshake?