[dpdk-dev] RFC: DPDK Long Term Support

Mcnamara, John john.mcnamara at intel.com
Tue Jun 7 18:21:21 CEST 2016



> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Neil Horman
> Sent: Monday, June 6, 2016 2:48 PM
> To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara at intel.com>; Christian
> Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>; Markos Chandras
> <mchandras at suse.de>; Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] RFC: DPDK Long Term Support
> 
> While I don't disagree with that statement (LTS does provide both of those
> things if the maintainer does it properly), I'm forced to ask the
> question, before we solve this problem in a new way, lets ask why the
> existing way isn't being used.  Do developers just not care about
> backwards compatibility?  Is the process to hard?  Something else?  I
> really don't like the idea of abandoning what currently exists to replace
> it with something else, without first addressing why what we have isn't
> working.

Hi Neil,

I think these questions around why the current ABI policy isn't working 
(or at least not working well) and how it can be fixed are worth raising
as a new discussion.

John.
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