On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 7:41 AM, C.J. Collier <cjcoll...@linuxfoundation.org > wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 11:51:20 +0100 Christian Ehrhardt <pael...@gmail.com> > wrote: > [...] > > But I'm not a Debian developer, so I'd like to have a more Debian centric > > co-maintainer for a proper Debian expertise and opinion in all the work. > > I'm also no DD, so sponsors will be needed. > > I'm interested in co-maintaining this package, and I've been a Debian user > for a couple of decades now. I've even been an uploader, years ago. > Hi C.J., great to hear that you want to help as well - I'm sure it will get great. We are Currently three people: - Luca Boccassi - DM, already applied for package upload permissions - Martin Thiago - Experienced in experimenting with DPDK/Debian/Ubuntu, giving us a broad testing&usage range - Myself - Packaging DPDK for Ubuntu, Testing DPDK with integrated tests and Openvswitch-DPDK You would be a great addition to our group - more Debian experience will surely help. > I've submitted an ITP for the FD.io group of packages: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819516 > > These depend on DPDK, so I've got an interest in making sure the DPDK > packages are good. > >From what I learned with packaging DPDK 2.2 for Ubuntu 16.04 there are a lot of things that can fail with DPDK. It is a great, but also fast moving and bleeding edge project. So testing and patching is needed - more packages "Consuming" the library and thereby more diverse test exposure help exactly with that. The three of us kind of agreed on the following rough schedule: - (Now / Luca) Requesting upload permissions for DPDK - (Now / Me) Completing testing and fixing DPDK packaging in ubuntu - (11th of May / All of us) start a kick off for packaging DPDK in Debian The next DPDK release changes a lot regarding the build system and the shared library handling, so on one hand IMHO it would avoid a lot of restructuring if we start with 16.04 release. But OTOH consuming packages might need older DPDK API / shared library handling versions that might no more be supported. But among many other things - that is one of the bigger topics we want to discuss and agree on the kick-off. I hope that schedule works for you and it would be great to add you to the kick-off and our later work. I'll invite you to the kick-off. P.S. I hope not - but if you are in a hurry with the FD.io packaging let me know on IRC and we can discuss our options.
