Minutes of DPDK Technical Board Meeting, 2025-03-05

Minutes of DPDK Technical Board Meeting, 2025-03-05

[Thomas Monjalon]

Members Attending: 10/11
        - Aaron Conole
        - Bruce Richardson
        - Hemant Agrawal
        - Honnappa Nagarahalli
        - Jerin Jacob
        - Kevin Traynor
        - Konstantin Ananyev
        - Maxime Coquelin
        - Morten Brørup
        - Thomas Monjalon (Chair)

NOTE: The Technical Board meetings take place every second Wednesday at 3 pm UTC
on https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/96459488340?password=d808f1f6-0a28-4165-929e-5a5bcae7efeb
Meetings are public, and DPDK community members are welcome to attend.
Agenda and minutes can be found at http://core.dpdk.org/techboard/minutes

1/ DPDK Summit in Prague

The CFP has been extended by a week.
A good amount of proposals were submitted.

The techboard meeting will be in Prague at 4pm, May 7.
A joint meeting both boardswill happen at 7pm the same day.

2/ Board Initiatives

The 3 initiatives about cloud, security and AI need more efforts.
We may try to work on them with some students mentored by their professors.
The next step is to find some universities to work with.

3/ Governing Board

The techboard can propose topics to be discussed for the next govboard meetings.

4/ Code Challenge

The topics are chosen but the format is not decided yet.
It is proposed to progress on the format and organization
with the help of a spreadsheet, including votes and decisions.

We should require at least one mentor per topic.

5/ Contribution Policy

Aaron proposed a policy to improve participation on the mailing-list,
reduce the noise, and help the CI workload.

The RFC is sent:
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20250305013351.2209789-1-aconole@redhat.com/

6/ Grout Testing

Patrick (UNH) will check with Robin what is needed to start testing Grout in the lab.
It is suggested that a weekly testing may be reasonnable.
We'll decide how much to invest (effort and machine time) in it during the next meeting.