On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 08:00 +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > 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: > > > [...] > > > > > 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. Perfect! Is the packaging in git somewhere? > > 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. Sounds great for me :-) A few of my colleagues work on the internal dpdk, I'll ask if they would like to help as well. I'll ask to be whitelisted and report back once I have news. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi Brocade Communications Systems
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