On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 07:12:45PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 06/10/2017 18:25, Luca Boccassi:
> > On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 16:05 +0000, Mcnamara, John wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > At the recent DPDK 2017 Userspace in Dublin it was agreed that we
> > > should have a DPDK 17.11 LTS with 2 year support that would run in
> > > parallel with the DPDK 16.11 LTS.
> > >
> > > However, if order for this to happen the community will have to
> > > provide a maintainer, either for 17.11 LTS or for 16.11 LTS (to allow
> > > Yuanhan to move from 16.11 LTS maintenance to 17.11 LTS maintenance).
> > >
> > > Ideally this person should come from one of the OSVs. Either way if
> > > we don't get a volunteer we won't have a 17.11 LTS.
> > >
> > > Volunteers please step forward.
> > >
> > > John
> >
> > Hello John,
> >
> > I was just about to write you :-)
> >
> > I am available to volunteer. I've just got permission from AT&T
> > management to dedicate some working hours every week to the project
> > (this is the reason why I didn't say anything on the spot - I needed to
> > ask first due to the time requirements).
> >
> > I am fine with either 16.11 or 17.11, whichever Yuanhan prefers.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> Thanks a lot Luca, and welcome :)
+1 :)
> You will have to send me a public SSH key.
And we may should have a short chat, about the scripts I used for managing
the stable/LTS releases.
> Yuanhan, how do you prefer to split the workload?
I'd prefer 17.11.
Thanks.
--yliu
