From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: rdma-core stable releases Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:14:48 -0700 Message-ID: <20171110211448.GF17451@ziepe.ca> References: <20171106182756.GD18802@ziepe.ca> <6012d1c3-cd18-25e8-c5ae-3d678142177b@suse.de> <54347E5A035A054EAE9D05927FB467F9B61778A9@ORSMSX101.amr.corp.intel.com> <20171110202455.GP18825@mtr-leonro.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171110202455.GP18825-U/DQcQFIOTAAJjI8aNfphQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Leon Romanovsky Cc: "Davis, Arlin R" , Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin , "Kalderon, Michal" , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Doug Ledford , "Elior, Ariel" , "Rahman, Ameen" , "Amrani, Ram" , "Radzi, Amit" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:24:55PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > More or less, you wrote everything that I expected, just need to post it > as a patch so I can apply it to rdma-core. Also please describe how to get patches into -stable, eg similar to the kernel, mark with fixes and cc the stable maintainer. There should also be absolutely no ABI changes in the -stable branchs. > The thing which is important to me is how long that stable will be > maintained and how often they will be opened, I don't want to see 12 > stable branches after 3 years of running rdma-core. It releases > every 2-3 months, so theoretically we can find ourselves creating > stable branches after every release (4 per year). Should be up to the people doing this, IMHO. Ultimately I think people will settle on a couple of revisions that ended up being used in distros, OFED, MOFED, etc. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html