Hi All, tl;dr we are looking for a new LTS maintainer.
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.
