From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leon Romanovsky Subject: Re: rdma-core stable releases Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 09:38:46 +0200 Message-ID: <20171113073846.GB18825@mtr-leonro.local> References: <20171106182756.GD18802@ziepe.ca> <6012d1c3-cd18-25e8-c5ae-3d678142177b@suse.de> <54347E5A035A054EAE9D05927FB467F9B61778A9@ORSMSX101.amr.corp.intel.com> <20171110202455.GP18825@mtr-leonro.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FntOJnOOIM0rA1zI" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin Cc: "Davis, Arlin R" , Jason Gunthorpe , "Kalderon, Michal" , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Doug Ledford , "Elior, Ariel" , "Rahman, Ameen" , "Amrani, Ram" , "Radzi, Amit" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org --FntOJnOOIM0rA1zI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 08:14:03AM +0100, Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin wrote: > > > Le 10/11/2017 =E0 21:24, Leon Romanovsky a =E9crit : > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 06:36:28PM +0000, Davis, Arlin R wrote: >>> I a= gree there is a big need for that. Currently reviewing all the patches I ha= ven't >>> read (only 1000 mails to go...) to see if they need to be backpor= ted on top on >>> rdma-core 15 for the next SLES. >>> I'd gladly help maint= aining this as I'm spending time on it anyway. >>> I'll leave wiser people = debate and ready a doc on how this should be done >>> though :) >>> >>> Nic= olas >> >> Thanks Nicolas. >> >> Ok, I am not sure what details the rdma-co= re maintainers are looking for in a document. Let me start the discussion w= ith the following: > > More or less, you wrote everything that I expected, = just need to post it > as a patch so I can apply it to rdma-core. > > The t= hing which is important to me is how long that stable will be maintained an= d how often they will be opened, > I don't want to see 12 stable branches a= fter 3 years of running rdma-core. It releases every 2-3 months, so theoret= ically > we can find ourselves creating stable branches after every release= (4 per > year). > > Thanks > >> >> Stable Branch Release >> >> Current Maintainer:= Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin >> >> Upstream rdm= a-core is considered stable after each mainline release. Branched stable re= leases, off a mainline release, are on as-needed basis and limited to bug f= ixes. All bug fixes are to be backported from mainline and applied by stabl= e branch maintainer. Branched stable releases will append an additional rel= ease number (e.g. 15.1) and will ensure that Travis CI reports a successful= build.=A0 Mention the frequency of stable releases or keep it "as is" cade= nce? >> >> See versioning.md for setting package version on a stable branch= =2E >> >> Arlin >> >> >> > What would make sense IMHO would be to have people submit their patches t= o stable branches through a github issues. > Each issue should be tagged in all the main/stable release it is in and c= ontains a SHA1 to a patch from master that contains a fix. Nicolas, Something went wrong with your mailer, It created long lines and broke line= s. Can you please resend so we will be able to read it? Thanks --FntOJnOOIM0rA1zI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEkhr/r4Op1/04yqaB5GN7iDZyWKcFAloJTAYACgkQ5GN7iDZy WKd2EQ/7BqNCzPXLMPrG0y8mzbKfXEYL9OtCyi+GflANeMQ3FTzcGZlRRFwSAZEt 9qKKYmJyDCGdTv3WKf59F8E/3S1tPhk3/TxO5XPciDQyGibqDZ4Q3H+G/c17wRHj 5+LbgeaVfHiLUPO85MDjeOSgjQHDgH+wL+8bAYPr9OYeCknjpZ16WFhAszE2vQHC Fe4A7xKTW3F5C3zYTyMA+THzDoBTTDZWoRZvBmUJIzVzfVgGlP3QaneMpIoJfVtX ZmthNDvJHKZ3aADLiYfg5O3OUkPUj53mN5FJelTq3fhPHS3YEdX6AmBig3uvOZof B2Czba3XI3BqDOlizLsFD5MBfbVLwZv3NYpJzm2qJnMKyG2o5SqKMUEh3vZ5sbuG cQz8/3pTQEVHyjiDrRBY2TOGPYT2qTQHSu5MZYJcpImaV3lHGLor3S9vTHePX5aO CyCW2XX2QjWsG6mcXbcTcQrhIKWwuDjo99Ei33tuNS+2/gmDbFpVjKdxjjx25GiN 02XgrxW79UgRqa3/j3n8Kyp9Me7Dw6o49e389Ta0rBH8RKAlViTGBBa5edTYO7+h ddPJNc2Nhy3lXmFBoR7zSESG6NtLFFzcxFq2pGMB4yNM9UPac1VsST4i7ltoS5iN 4fk009f1PZXt79sM342Bgo9XZEHVu4pNKObtRqxnPQfY99ncXP8= =xgMi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FntOJnOOIM0rA1zI-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html