Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2022-06-15

Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2022-06-15

[Stephen Hemminger]

Members Attending
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11/11
- Aaron
- Bruce
- David
- Hemant
- Kevin
- Konstantin
- Maxime
- Nathan
- Olivier
- Stephen (chair)
- Thomas

NOTE: The technical board meetings are on every second Wednesday at
https://meet.jit.si/DPDK at 3 pm UTC. Meetings are public, and DPDK
community members are welcome to attend.

NOTE: Next meeting will be on Wednesday 2021-June-29 @3pm UTC, and will
be chaired by Thomas.

Agenda Items
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1) DPDK Userspace Event
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In last phases prior to announcement. Waiting for landing page, and CFP.
Will need quick approval from Technical Advisory Board.
(See follow up email for current status)

2) Bug smashing
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Could we do this at userpace event? Who would own it?
Logistics support is needed. No volunteers from Technical Advisory Board at this time.

3) Tech Writer update
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None of the earlier candidates appeared to be a good fit.
One new candidate is being looked at.
May need to revise the rate (needs governing board approval).

4) Olivier resignation from Technical Advisory Board
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Consensus from Technical Advisory Board is that Olivier is irreplaceable.

5) Motivating cleanups?
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Lots of topics need addressing, and there is nowhere to point motivated
newcomers to get started. Need some process to acknowledge approval from
Technical Advisory Board for a rework items.

The list of items in roadmap is: https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/
There are currently 13 items in "Nice to have" section.

Proposal is to use existing bugzilla to track these and assign owners.

https://bugs.dpdk.org/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=enhancement&bug_status=CONFIRMED&bug_status=IN_PROGRESS&product=DPDK


6) Bugzilla status
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Ajit is owner, have not gotten status recently.
There are currently 246 DPDK open bugs.
https://bugs.dpdk.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&product=DPDK


7) Security process
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Need two different processes based on severity level but this is not documented.
A few critical bugs may need to be done immediately, special release;
and non critical bugs can be done as part of release process.

8) Removal of KNI
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Should example be removed, replaced in future release.

9) Documentation
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Missing a high level document about goals and scope of DPDK.
Can we reuse what in earlier white paper? Thomas to ask.