Good luck Shani! Regards, Asaf Penso
>-----Original Message----- >From: Kevin Traynor <[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, 10 December 2025 12:42 >To: [email protected] >Cc: Shani Peretz <[email protected]>; Luca Boccassi <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: New LTS maintainer? > >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.
