Tech Board Meeting Minutes - 2025-Apr-30

Tech Board Meeting Minutes - 2025-Apr-30

[Honnappa Nagarahalli]

TB Members Attending
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Aaron Conole 
Bruce Richardson 
Honnappa Nagarahalli (chair)
Jerin Jacob
Kevin Traynor
Konstantin Ananyev
Maxime Coquelin
Morten Brørup
Stephen Hemminger

NOTE: The technical board meetings are on every second Wednesday at 3pm UTC.
Meetings are public, and DPDK community members are welcome to attend.
Agenda and minutes can be found at http://core.dpdk.org/techboard/minutes

Next meeting will be on Wednesday 2025-May-14 @ 3pm UTC, and will be
chaired by Jerin Jacob.

Agenda Items
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1) Agenda for the Techboard F2F meeting at Prague
    - DPDK APIs for UEC?
    - Topics from last meeting - Review events, marketing, webpage content, docs, testing, bug tracking, patches, release
    - Discussion on Rust – May be a BoF required?
    - Morten suggested that we should document the features we like the community to implement
    - Discuss coding challenges and make decisions. See the code challenge item below.

 2) Agenda for joint Techboard and Governing board meeting
    - Are there initiatives within different companies on supporting DPDK+Rust
    - Review the status of various work happening at UNH lab. Nathan Southern will check if Patrick is allowed to attend the meeting to represent UNH lab work.

 3) Ben needs review from the Techboard of the university outreach slides [1]

 4) Ben needs input on DPDK advocacy slides [2]. Slide 10 needs input on statistucs (like what has been done in the past with number of patches, commits, companies etc), Code improvements (could come from roadmap). The slides need to be oriented towards developers rather than companies

 5) Code challenge – The following topics need to be discussed and concluded at the Tech board F2F meeting in Prague
    a) Discussion on the duration of the code challenge.
        Code challenges beyond a day are hard to manage. The recommendation is to do it for a day, but not more than 2 days.
        The coding challenges that need more than a day can be moved to university project lists.
    b) Location for the coding challenge
        It is better to have the coding challenge co-located with the summit to attract more people to the summit.
        However, for the Santa Clara summit, we might have to do it in a hotel before the summit.
    c) Coding challenge could be attached to university effort as te goal is to attract more developers to the project.  6) Christian from Napatech discussed the changes being requested to the PMD. The asks are significant changes to the code.
        He requested that we should document the requirement on PMD acceptance. Merging in 25.11 is fine.

[1] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KZgDMwA-XRkBJBm9k04KXmSIlL2TJRzituVPlXM9YfU/edit?slide=id.g35236c89383_0_347#slide=id.g35236c89383_0_347
[2] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fh6-9PY2PbBnuPYFseXg8t49sit_qGcO/edit?slide=id.g34438a6c102_0_177#slide=id.g34438a6c102_0_177