[dpdk-dev] Minutes of technical board meeting 2017-12-06

["Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

Attendees:
Bruce, Hemant, Jerin, Konstantin, Olivier, Thomas, Yuanhan

Absent:
Stephen, Jan

Due to discontinued involvement in DPDK, Jan has now resigned from the technical board.
The tech board wishes to thank him for his contributions to DPDK and tech-board over the last few years and wish him well in his other endeavours.
The topic of a possible replacement for Jan on the tech-board will be discussed at the next meeting.

Topic: Management of old patches in patchwork
* Unanimous agreement that old patches should be rejected in patchwork
  after a reasonable period, set initially at 3 releases (9 months).
* After a release, all patches dated older than 3 releases previously,
  e.g. after 17.11, any patches submitted before the release of 17.02,
  will be marked as rejected and a mail reply sent to the appropriate
  mailing list thread informing people of the same.
* To have patches reconsidered for future inclusion, a new version of
  the patches should be submitted to the mailing list.

* Bruce to update the documentation with this new policy.
* Thomas to request support from patchwork and DPDK community to
  automate/script the implementation of this policy.

Topic: Licensing
* No major updates. Discussion in progress on a number of items that
  need relicensing or exceptions.

Topic: Technical Board Voting
* For charter changes the governing board requires a 2/3 majority. The
  technical board has no such special case for charter or policy
  changes.
* Following brief discussion, most seemed happy with the current
  situation where a simple majority suffices for such decisions.
  
Next Meeting:
* 2017-12-20 @ 3pm UTC
* Hemant to chair discussion