From patchwork Fri Mar 22 11:44:00 2019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Kevin Traynor X-Patchwork-Id: 51510 X-Patchwork-Delegate: thomas@monjalon.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFB111B5B1; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:44:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4889B1B57B; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:44:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.14]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5BD2DC130718; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:44:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rh.redhat.com (ovpn-117-231.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.117.231]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 788305D9D2; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:44:21 +0000 (UTC) From: Kevin Traynor To: dev@dpdk.org, john.mcnamara@intel.com, marko.kovacevic@intel.com Cc: stable@dpdk.org, bluca@debian.org, yskoh@mellanox.com, ferruh.yigit@intel.com, thomas@monjalon.net, stephen@networkplumber.org, Kevin Traynor Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:44:00 +0000 Message-Id: <20190322114400.3745-1-ktraynor@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.14 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.31]); Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:44:24 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: note validation commitment required for stables X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" If a stable branch for a specific DPDK release is to proceed, along with needing a maintainer, there should also be commitment from major contributors for validation of the releases. Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor Acked-by: Luca Boccassi Acked-by: Marko Kovacevic --- doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst index 4214103b3..0130991e2 100644 --- a/doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst +++ b/doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst @@ -27,5 +27,6 @@ Stable Releases Any major release of DPDK can be designated as a Stable Release if a -maintainer volunteers to maintain it. +maintainer volunteers to maintain it and there is a commitment from major +contributors to validate it before releases. A Stable Release is used to backport fixes from an ``N`` release back to an