Bug#815760: Your mail

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Luca Boccassi <lboccass@brocade.com> wrote:

On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 11:51:20 +0100 Christian Ehrhardt <paelzer@gmail.com> wrote:

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> It'd be great to have this packaged in Debian too, so that we can share the
> work. I am looking for co-maintainers to help me with this.
>
> 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.

Hello Christian,

Thanks for doing the packaging work, it looks great!

I work at Brocade, and we maintain a dpdk package internally too. I'd be
happy to try and help as best as I can with the packaging, and with
sponsoring the uploads!

Hi Luca,

great that you would like to join us.

Martin also offered to help and he is already working with the Ubuntu package of DPDK as of now.

I think we would be enough of a group to have discussions, test, assist and review for each other and so on.

The only small issue is that I am a DM, not a DD, so I would need a DD
to do the one-time whitelist of my pgp key for this package on the ftp
first, and then I'd be able to sponsor all the uploads.

That really sounds like a plan.

I'm currently heads down on testing and flushing out various issues with DPDK towards the release of Ubuntu 16.04.

And there I find & fix issues all the time right now.

Therefore I'd suggest we wait until it reached some kind of stability and then work together to transfer on that base to Debian.

In terms of timing I'd suggest the following

1. You request being whitelisted for that package

2. I'll finish up the DPDK-2.2 packaging and test/fix phase for Ubuntu 16.04

3. In early May we would then do a kick of with the three of us (and whoever else wants to join)

There we can assert the current state of DPDK (constraints to libs, new dpdk 16.04 build changes, ...) and its packaging, and make a plan on who/how exactly what to do.

I hope that would work for you, but I really see no reason to hurry now just to upload patches every other day.

If that works for you let me know and I'd invite you two to a kick-of session in a hangout around that time.

Kind Regards,

Christian Ehrhardt

Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server

Canonical Ltd