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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iproute2 net-next
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 22:14:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171225221426.57d4af0b@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171226044743.GK2942@mtr-leonro.local>

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On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 06:47:43 +0200
Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 10:49:19AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > David Ahern has agreed to take over managing the net-next branch of iproute2.
> > The new location is:
> >  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dsahern/iproute2-next.git/
> >
> > In the past, I have accepted new features into iproute2 master branch, but
> > am changing the policy so that outside of the merge window (up until -rc1)
> > new features will get put into net-next to get some more review and testing
> > time. This means that things like the proposed batch streaming mode will
> > go through net-next.
> >  
> 
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> Did you consider to create one shared repo for the iproute2 to allow
> multiple committers workflow?

For now having separate trees is best, there is no need for multiple
committers the load is very light.


> It will be much convenient for the users to have one place for
> master/stable/net-next branches, instead of actually following two
> different repositories.

If you are doing network development, you already need to deal with
multiple repo's on the kernel side so there is no difference.

> 
> Example, of such shared repo:
> BPF: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next.git/
> Bluetooth: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth-next.git/
> RDMA: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma.git/

Most of these are high volume or vendor silo'd which is not the case here.


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  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-26  6:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-25 18:49 iproute2 net-next Stephen Hemminger
2017-12-26  4:47 ` Leon Romanovsky
2017-12-26  6:14   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-12-26  9:35     ` Leon Romanovsky
2017-12-28 23:46       ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-12-29  8:58         ` Jiri Pirko
2017-12-30  4:00           ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-12-30 20:24             ` Daniel Borkmann
2018-01-16  1:56             ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-01-16  2:59               ` David Ahern
2018-01-16  3:29                 ` Jakub Kicinski
2018-01-16 19:06                   ` David Ahern
2018-01-22 16:07                   ` David Ahern

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