12/08/2020 11:52, Bruce Richardson: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 02:50:57PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 10/08/2020 13:49, Trahe, Fiona: > > > Sorry about that Thomas, Akhil, we should have chased up acks sooner. > > > > > > Given the proposed content of the patch, and the similar changes that are > > > recommended and agreed > > > throughout DPDK do you think an exception can be made and that this > > > change can get into 20.11 even > > > without the deprecation notice being in 20.08? > > > > That's a question for techboard. > > > > PS: please avoid top-posting > > > My initial 2c is that we should allow this, and add the required > deprecation notice to the online docs immediately. I would assume most > people use the online docs rather than building their own from the package, > therefore adding in a deprecation notice to the online versions a few days > after a release should not be a major problem IMHO. > > Also, given the fact that we have once-a-year at most to apply ABI > changes, and this is the first time we are going this, so I think a little > latitude should be given! :-)
I agree We need more opinions from other techboard members to make it a decision.
