On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 06:47:43 +0200
Leon Romanovsky <l...@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 10:49:19AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > David Ahern has agreed to take over managing the net-next branch of 
> > iproute2.
> > The new location is:
> >  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dsahern/iproute2-next.git/
> >
> > In the past, I have accepted new features into iproute2 master branch, but
> > am changing the policy so that outside of the merge window (up until -rc1)
> > new features will get put into net-next to get some more review and testing
> > time. This means that things like the proposed batch streaming mode will
> > go through net-next.
> >  
> 
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> Did you consider to create one shared repo for the iproute2 to allow
> multiple committers workflow?

For now having separate trees is best, there is no need for multiple
committers the load is very light.


> It will be much convenient for the users to have one place for
> master/stable/net-next branches, instead of actually following two
> different repositories.

If you are doing network development, you already need to deal with
multiple repo's on the kernel side so there is no difference.

> 
> Example, of such shared repo:
> BPF: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next.git/
> Bluetooth: 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth-next.git/
> RDMA: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma.git/

Most of these are high volume or vendor silo'd which is not the case here.

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