doc: introduce major ABI versions
authorRay Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>
Mon, 11 Nov 2019 11:57:57 +0000 (11:57 +0000)
committerThomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:03:46 +0000 (09:03 +0100)
commitfdf7471cccb8be023037c218d1402c0549eb2c8e
tree6e152aa60b1638be6690496d8ddf913f2aef79d9
parentced6b2d19a549ca0d4c90025224f97e4540f133d
doc: introduce major ABI versions

This policy change introduces major ABI versions, these are
declared every year, typically aligned with the LTS release
and are supported by subsequent releases in the following year.
This change is intended to improve ABI stabilty for those projects
consuming DPDK.

Signed-off-by: Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
doc/guides/contributing/abi_policy.rst
doc/guides/contributing/img/abi_stability_policy.svg [new file with mode: 0644]
doc/guides/contributing/img/what_is_an_abi.svg [new file with mode: 0644]
doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst