DTS WG Meeting Minutes - June 20, 2024

[Patrick Robb <probb@iol.unh.edu>]

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Attendees
* Patrick Robb
* Juraj Linkeš
* Paul Szczepanek
* Jeremy Spewock
* Nicholas Pratte
* Dean Marx
* Luca Vizzarro

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Minutes

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General Announcements
* Thomas has merged some patchseries:
   * Testpmd params:
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=32231&state=*
   * Mypy: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=32026&state=*
      * UNH can roll out the CI testing for mypy early next week
   * Error and usage improvements:
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=32038&state=*
   * Testpmd show port info/stats:
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=32112&state=*
   * Rename execution to test run:
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20240607083858.58906-1-juraj.linkes@pantheon.tech/
   * Node and inheritance improvements:
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=32230&state=*
   * Hugepage configuration refactor:
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=32129&state=*
      * Thomas found an issue with Nick's patchset, some parts were
not in the right patches; the parts are in DPDK docs and each
individual commit must be valid, which was not the case with Nick's
patch
         * Each individual patch must build docs successfully. The
renaming needs to be grouped into one patch instead of split out.
         * Lines must be broken logically, like after a dot or comma.
But, there is a line limitation and this may restrict our ability to
write freely. There isn’t a hard requirement that the line breaks with
some punctuation (although this is helpful), a logical separation in
the sentence structure is fine too.
   * Improved interactive shell output gathering not merged as there
were some unresolved comments
   * Everyone please rebase
* DPDK Summit Montreal
   * Possible CFP topics for DTS:
      * How to write a testsuite. This could be a simple lightning
talk which shows how we wrote one of the testsuites we are working on
now.
      * Luca is interested in giving this talk
* Thomas mentioned: We may discuss creating a git tree for you (for DTS)
   * This would help Juraj and the DTS group have more control over
merging patches
   * This is like next-* branches on DPDK. So it would be like a next-dts.
   * Patrick Robbcan also add it to the agenda.
      * Juraj should join to share his thoughts as DTS maintainer
      * Meeting info here: https://core.dpdk.org/techboard/
* Do we want to switch to Ubuntu 24.04 as the distro of choice? This
would prompt a Python update, which we could use for dataclasses
(@typing.dataclass_transform) and other things
* RC2 should be 2 weeks out. 5th of July.

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Patch discussions
* Improve interactive shell output gathering/logging
   * There are some unresolved comments from Nick

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Bugzilla discussions
* Vlan filter ethdev bug added: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1464

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Any other business
* Next meeting Jul 3, 2024