06/10/2017 18:21, Mcnamara, John: > Hi, > > At the recent DPDK 2017 Userspace in Dublin we had a discussion about API/ABI > stability with representation from Intel, OVS-DPDK, Debian, Red Hat and > plenty of input from the floor. > > The main consensus after looking at different proposals was to maintain the > current process (http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/contributing/versioning.html) but > to try enforce it more rigidly. > > The main points to come out of this discussion were: > > 1. That 3 Acks are still needed for deprecation and they should come from > different companies. > > 2. ABI checks to be run as part of the CI/testing so that patches that break > ABI are flagged early. Note, ABI checks can be run manually as follows: > http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/contributing/versioning.html#running-the-abi-validator > > 3. New API's will be marked as experimental by default for 1 release minimum. > This is to address the most common case for breakage which is in new APIs.
Thanks for the summary, John. The points 1 and 3 must be approved by the technical board.
