Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] stack: remove experimental tag from API

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 02:18:32PM +0000, Eads, Gage wrote:
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2020 3:11 AM
> > To: Eads, Gage <gage.eads@intel.com>; Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>
> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; david.marchand@redhat.com; nhorman@tuxdriver.com;
> > phil.yang@arm.com; honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com;
> > olivier.matz@6wind.com
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] stack: remove experimental tag from API
> > 
> > 28/05/2020 07:46, Ray Kinsella:
> > > Hi Gage,
> > >
> > > Do you have any idea.
> > > If the change from experimental to stable symbol is likely to break anyone's
> > application?
> > > (are folks actively using the api with shared libraries)
> 
> Good question. I don't have a good sense of the active users, so I'd rather play it safe.
> 
> > >
> > > If so, you _may_ consider offering a temporary alias to experimental until the
> > v21 is declared at 20.11.
> > > This is entirely at your discretion, see
> > > https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/contributing/abi_versioning.html (4.3.1.4)
> > 
> > Or we can wait 20.11.
> > 
> 
> That works. I have no urgency to get this into 20.08 in particular.
> 
> > Anyway I think it deserves a comment in the release notes (API section).
> >  
> 
> Ok, if there are no objections then I'll re-submit this patchset in a few months and include a release notes comment.
> 
Or just resubmit with a 20.11 tag on it, and then mark it as "deferred" in
patchwork, so it pops up automatically for disposition again at the end of
the 20.08 cycle?

/Bruce