Re: rdma-core stable releases

Devesh Sharma
2017-11-13T03:17:38Z

Hello Everyone,

Can someone guide me how to initiate a pull of my recent submission to
the stable branch. This is quite urgent.

-Regards
Devesh

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Leon Romanovsky <leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 06:36:28PM +0000, Davis, Arlin R wrote:
>> > I agree there is a big need for that. Currently reviewing all the patches I haven't
>> > read (only 1000 mails to go...) to see if they need to be backported on top on
>> > rdma-core 15 for the next SLES.
>> > I'd gladly help maintaining this as I'm spending time on it anyway.
>> > I'll leave wiser people debate and ready a doc on how this should be done
>> > though :)
>> >
>> > Nicolas
>>
>> Thanks Nicolas.
>>
>> Ok, I am not sure what details the rdma-core maintainers are looking for in a document. Let me start the discussion with the following:
>>
>> Stable Branch Release
>>
>> Current Maintainer: Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <NMoreyChaisemartin@suse.de>
>>
>> Upstream rdma-core is considered stable after each mainline release. Branched stable releases, off a mainline release, are on as-needed basis and limited to bug fixes. All bug fixes are to be backported from mainline and applied by stable branch maintainer. Branched stable releases will append an additional release number (e.g. 15.1) and will ensure that Travis CI reports a successful build. Mention the frequency of stable releases or keep it "as is" cadence?
>>
>> See versioning.md for setting package version on a stable branch.
>
>
> Nicolas,
>
> I created new branch "stable-v15" in rdma-core repo [1]. Versioning and
> releasing should be done by tags, see release document [2]. You should
> check in advance that release script [3] creates proper files, and
> double check our CI scripts to ensure they don't filter out that stable
> branch.
>
> Thanks
>
> [1] https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core/tree/stable-v15
> [2] https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core/blob/master/Documentation/release.md
> [3] https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core/blob/master/buildlib/github-release
>
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>> Arlin
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