Hello folks,

Please find the WG meeting minutes below:
Attendees

  *   Honnappa Nagarahalli
  *   Lijuan Tu
  *   Juraj Linkes
  *   Owen Hilyard
Agenda

  *   Additions to the agenda
  *   Review/Carry forward pending action items
  *   Merging DTS into DPDK
  *   Review DTS DPDK Modifications excel sheet
  *   Review additional work items
Minutes
Review/Carry forward pending action items

  *   Honnappa - Patches to DPDK to address changing the constants and printfs under progress.
     *   Still in progress
  *   Are the GPL files part of the framework or test cases?
§  Qemu-ga-client, qmp.py - are part of the framework used with VM based test cases. DTS uses these to communicate with VMs.
§  These files will be moved out of DTS into a separate repo. Honnappa to discuss with the Techboard on where to host the repo.
§  Owen - looking to see how to get Qemu-ga-client, qmp.py into DTS
§  Lijuan - texttable.py - found a library and is working on integrating it.

  *   Lijuan - The makefile removal patch is ready to get merged (http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dts/list/?series=20610). Merge it in the 22.03 DTS release.

     *   Still in progress (work left on < 5 test suites, target to get this done in 2 weeks)
  *   Owen - Write a script to check if the formatters are throwing any errors.
     *   The responsibility of submitting the well formatted code is with the patch submitter
     *   The script should inform the developer what are the errors and suggest running the formatter script
     *   Lijuan will enable this script in CI
  *   Owen - Investigate DTS test suites to check for redundant tests
     *   Unit testing (handled by meson now) - Can be removed, but we will add a deprecation notice for the next release, and will be removed in the release after that.
     *   "Does it compile?" tests - These are removed already
Merging DTS into DPDK

  *   Try for 22.07 RC1
  *   Focus on framework and test cases used in CI
  *   Juraj has created a RFC patch to move the DTS framework to DPDK repo. Juraj to share this with DTS WG directly for further discussion.
  *   AI Juraj - Try to split the RFC patch into logical parts.

DPDK Modifications Review

  *   Some issues are fixed
  *   Many changes are still present.
Action Items

  *   Honnappa - Patches to DPDK to address changing the constants and printfs under progress.
  *   Lijuan - Check to see if texttable.py can be replaced with Python libraries.
  *   Owen - Add a deprecation notice to release notes and a warning in DTS to remove the unit testing from DTS.
  *   Honnappa - Review the must have list from https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s_Y3Ph1sVptYs6YjOxkUI8rVzrPFGpTZzd75gkpgIXY/edit#gid=1128536548 to ensure correct priority
  *   Lijuan - To create the DTS test suite developer document.
  *   Juraj - Review the DTS user guide to ensure the identified items in must have are incorporated.
  *   Lijuan - Submit a patch for TestSuite_efd.test_perf_efd_valuesize to use the -c_args option in meson configure command
  *   Honnappa - Discuss the possibility of the GPL file repo hosted under dpdk.org with the techboard. An alternate approach is to use git submodules, not sure if this solves the GPL issue.
  *   Owen - Add a script/makefile/meson get Qemu-ga-client, qmp.py into DTS at run time.
  *   Owen - Write a script to check if the formatters are throwing any errors.
  *   Lijuan - Review and merge the pylama config patch.
  *   Lijuan - Unpack tcl tools (needed for IXIA), store in dep/<directory>, test and submit a patch.
Any other business

  *   Next Meeting: March 30, 2022