[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update ABI/API policy

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Sat Nov 11 12:37:32 CET 2017


06/11/2017 15:48, Mcnamara, John:
> From: Richardson, Bruce
> > 
> > Following agreement at the DPDK Technical Board meeting of 2017-10-13 [1],
> > update the documentation with the ABI/API policy changes.
> > 
> > [1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-October/079961.html
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> > ---
> >  doc/guides/contributing/versioning.rst | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/versioning.rst
> > b/doc/guides/contributing/versioning.rst
> > index 8d0fdb777..a1d8492a1 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/contributing/versioning.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/contributing/versioning.rst
> > @@ -13,7 +13,9 @@ General Guidelines
> >  ------------------
> > 
> >  #. Whenever possible, ABI should be preserved -#. The libraries marked in
> > experimental state may change without constraint.
> > +#. Libraries or APIs marked in ``experimental`` state may change without
> > constraint.
> > +#. New API will be marked as ``experimental`` for at least one release to
> 
> s/API/APIs/
> 
> 
> > +APIs marked as ``experimental`` are not considered part of the ABI and
> > +may change without warning at any time.  Since changes to APIs are most
> > +likely immediately after their introduction, as users begin to take
> > +advantage of those new API and start finding issues with them, new DPDK
> 
> s/API/APIs/
> 
> 
> > +   - The acknowledgment of the maintainer of the component is mandatory, or if
> > +     no maintainer is available for the component, the tree/sub-tree maintainer
> > +     for that component must be acknowledge the ABI change instead.
> 
> s/must be/must/
> 
> Apart from that:
> 
> Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara at intel.com>

Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>

Applied with suggested changes, thanks



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