On 29/10/2025 16:30, Kevin Traynor wrote: > Hi All, > > tl;dr we are looking for a new LTS maintainer. >
A big thank you to Shani Peretz of Nvidia who volunteered and was unanimously approved as the new LTS maintainer for 23.11 at the 12th November techboard meeting. > We have 3 maintained LTS releases and a maintainer responsible for each > one as listed at https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#stable . > > Xueming has done a great job maintaining 23.11 LTS up to now but is > stepping down as maintainer due to changing work priorities, so we are > looking for a new LTS maintainer to take over 23.11 for it's final year > and a bit. > > The main items the role involves: > - Getting a list of fixes from main branch that should be backported to > the LTS branch around time of a new DPDK release > - Backporting the fixes to the LTS branch > - Resolving any trivial conflicts (and complex ones if you want) > - Notifying authors of fixes that could not be backported and > require their assistance > - Notifying authors of fixes that are queued to merge > - Ensuring that CI's are kept green > - Creating release candidates for the validation teams > - Working with validation teams and authors to get a resolution for any > issues that are found during testing > - Writing up release notes etc. and releasing > > We have many scripts and tricks to help semi-automate the steps above. > > Luca and I will continue as LTS maintainers so we'll be available to > help someone ramp up and only a ping away for any issues. > > If anyone is interested please send me a private email reply by Nov 7th > and we'll propose candidates to the techboard. > > thanks, > Kevin and Luca.
