[dpdk-dev] drivers/crypto sub-tree maintainer volunteer

[Declan Doherty]

On 21/10/15 10:34, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2015-10-21 10:26, Declan Doherty:
>> I'm just following up on discussions from DPDK user space and the on
>> going discussions regarding the maintenance of development sub-trees
>> etc. I just wanted to re-iterate my offer to maintain a sub-tree for the
>> cryptodev library and all crypto PMDs in drivers/crypto.
>
> Thanks Declan
>
>> Thomas, I will leave it up to you whether you want to wait until the
>> initial patch set has been merged into main and then create the
>> sub-tree, or whether you would like to create the sub-tree now and take
>> the crypto features as a pull request after they have been fully
>> reviewed and acked.
>
> We can manage the initial import directly and prepare the crypto tree
> in the meantime. Please send your SSH key.

Will do.

> Should we create a separate mailing list and patchwork?
>

personally I think keeping a single mailing list for the moment is 
preferable. The mailing lists volume isn't so great yet that we need 
separate lists, also by creating a list for each sub-tree, is there a 
danger that we could stratify the discussion, developers would need to 
keep abreast of work being done in each sub-tree and to keep track of 
each multiple lists, especially as there will no doubt be patch sets 
that will go into a sub tree that also contain changes which affect code 
outside of that tree.

I'm not sure if separate patchwork lists are possible without separate 
mailing lists but we could work around that by allowing sub-tree 
committers access to modify the main patchwork list, when the commit 
patches.