Re: rdma-core stable releases

Jason Gunthorpe
2017-11-13T19:17:57Z

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:56:19AM +0100, Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin wrote:

> >> 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
> >>
> >> Do you have any request/idea/suggestion about the release rate of the stable branch ?
> > I don't have.
>
> Apart from distros, are there people interested in stable branches ?
> If not, we could release simply release around the same time a new
> main release comes out (N.1 comes out at the same time as N+1.0),
> and on-demand when a distro requires it.

I'd just do it on demand.. Maybe a week after the last patch was accepted
or something. No sense in waiting for anything else. The goal here
should be to push the stable updates into the distros as quickly as
possible.

Jason