Re: [PATCHv3 0/4] dpdk: enhance EXPERIMENTAL api tagging

[Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 02:33:13PM +0000, Mcnamara, John wrote:
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Neil Horman [mailto:nhorman@tuxdriver.com]
> > Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 7:36 PM
> > To: dev@dpdk.org
> > Cc: thomas@monjalon.net; Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara@intel.com>;
> > Richardson, Bruce <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> > Subject: [PATCHv3 0/4] dpdk: enhance EXPERIMENTAL api tagging
> > 
> > Hey all-
> > 	A few days ago, I was lamenting the fact that, when reviewing
> > patches I would frequently complain about ABI changes that were actually
> > considered safe because they were part of the EXPERIMENTAL api set.  John
> > M. asked me then what I might do to improve the situation, and the
> > following patch set is a proposal that I've come up with.
> 
> Hi Neil,
> 
> Thanks for this and apologies in advance for making more work for you but
> it would be good to have a short section in the Contributors Guide on how
> to add/check experimental APIs. I think the information in this cover
> letter could be repurposed along with a few code and shell examples.
> 
> Probably as a new high level section in the Contributors Guides:
> 
> http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/contributing/index.html
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 

Thats ok, I was actually trying to think of where to add documentation for this
thing, but couldnt find a really appropriate place.  I'll add that in and
repost.

Neil