Re: DCCP Deprecation
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Date: 2023-07-10 19:01:02
On Mon, 10 Jul 2023 11:22:53 -0700 Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
From: "Maglione, Gregorio" <redacted> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2023 12:06:11 +0000quoted
Hi Kuniyuki, I saw the deprecation notice on the DCCP. We are working with a multipath extension of the protocol, and this would likely impact us in the standardisation effort. Do you know whom I must contact to know how I can volunteer to maintain the protocol, and to get more information about the maintenance process?I think it would be better to review others' patches or post patches before stepping up as a maintainer.
Yes, I think we should document the expectations more clearly. I asked on workflows@ if others already have docs. https://lore.kernel.org/workflows/20230710115239.3f9e2c24@kernel.org/T/#u (local) For DCCP specifically I think we'd like to see some effort around improving syzbot testing and addressing the bugs?
However, this repo seems to have a license issue that cannot be upstreamed as is. https://github.com/telekom/mp-dccp
Right, in theory maintenance of the code already upstream is orthogonal to protocol extensions. But if there is no user of the pure upstream code then it seems hard to justify the effort of keeping it.