Re: rdma-core stable releases

Leon Romanovsky
2017-11-13T10:41:46Z

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On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 10:16:32AM +0100, Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin wrote:
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> Le 13/11/2017 à 09:14, Leon Romanovsky a écrit :
> > On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 08:53:19AM +0100, Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin wrote:
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> >> What would make sense IMHO would be to have people submit their patches to stable branches through a github issues.
> >> Each issue should be tagged in all the main/stable release it is in and contains a SHA1 to a patch from master that contains a fix.
> >>
> > I personally against such close integration with github and creating two
> > different places for communication (ML and github), but as Jason said,
> > the core team has no plans to manage it and it will be your decision on
> > how you will manage it.
> >
> > Right now, the gihtub issues are disabled in rdma-core, because we
> > didn't want people open bug reports there instead of posting to the ML.
> >
> > Thanks
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> I just saw that on Github. And yes people will open bug for master there.
> I don't want to intrude in  your workflow..

Feel free "to intrude", I'm not alone here.

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> I'm OK with keeping just the ML for the moment. If it becomes too much of a mess, I'll come back with my github request (or something else).
> How do you suggest flagging me for those patches ? Should we follow the kernel stable process ?

I think so, the kernel process works, we just need to adapt it to rdma-core.
Regarding the flagging procedure, we can do like Greg and Sasha do.

Open email account (e.g. stable-Xl5UnYtxxKxKUA01WzcqbQ@public.gmane.org), connect it to /dev/null,
so people won't get bounce emails while they sent patches to it, and
once a week or two run script [1], which will check master branch and
cherry-pick patches with Cc: stable@ in their commit messages.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sashal/stable-tools.git/tree/

> Meaning either:
> - CC me with version information on a submission to master
> - Send a mail to ML + me after patch has been accepted in master with a tag like [PATCH rdma-core stable], a list of patch-id from master, the version they apply to and why they should be picked
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> Do you have any request/idea/suggestion about the release rate of the stable branch ?

I don't have.

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> Nicolas

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