Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-techboard] DPDK techboard minutes of October 24

["Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>]

Hi Anatoly,

> > Meeting notes for the DPDK technical board meeting
> > held on 2018-10-24
> >
> > Attendees:
> >          - Bruce Richardson
> >          - Ferruh Yigit
> >          - Hemant Agrawal
> >          - Jerin Jacob
> >          - Konstantin Ananyev
> >          - Maxime Coquelin
> >          - Olivier Matz
> >          - Stephen Hemminger
> >          - Thomas Monjalon
> >
> > 0) DPDK acceptance policy on un-implemented API
> > - New APIs without implementation is not accepted.
> > - In order to accept a new API, At minimum
> > a) Need to provide an unit test case or example application
> > b) If the API is about HW abstraction, at least one driver
> > should be implemented. Preferably two.
> > c) If there are strong objections on ML about the need
> > for more than one driver for a specific API then
> > the technical board can make a decision.
> > - Konstantin volunteered to send existing un-implemented API
> > to the mailing list.
> > - The existing un-implemented APIs will be deprecated in v19.05.
> > - Deprecated un-implemented API will be removed in v19.08
> >
> 
> Does this also apply to unimplemented parts of the existing API? For
> example, malloc API has long had a "name" parameter which goes
> unimplemented through entire lifetime of DPDK project. It would be good
> to drop this thing entirely as it's clear it's not going to be
> implemented any time soon :)
> 

Sounds like a good idea to me.
Konstantin