[dpdk-dev] Minutes of tech-board meeting 2017-04-27

[Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>]

Hi all,

Here is the meeting notes for the last DPDK technical board meeting held on 2017-04-27.

Please note that meetings are open to all to attend. Any topics to be referred to the tech board for discussion at that meeting should be emailed to techboard@dpdk.org. Normally, it's a bi-weekly meeting.

Member attendees:
- Bruce Richardson
- Hemant Agrawal
- Jan Blunck
- Jerin Jacob
- Olivier Matz
- Stephen Hemminger
- Thomas Monjalon
- Yuanhan Liu


1.Scope of cmdline and cfgfile libraries in DPDK
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- DPDK will continue to keep one version of cli and cfg libs in dpdk. They can be replaced with a better version in future. 
- w.r.t Keith's CLI lib proposal. It should replace the existing CLI lib. If any api changes are required, the api deprecation process should be followed. 
- It is acknowledged that cli and cfg libs can also be used outside dpdk. They can be better hosted on a different git repository. However, DPDK needs a better external dep system to do this. 
- The DPDK build system should be improved to work better with external dependencies. Thomas and Bruce will send a RFC on build system reqs for handling external deps.  

2. DPDK Bug Tracker
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DPDK is missing a bug tracker or to-do item list. It will be discussed in next meeting.

3. Next Meeting
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As per alphabetical order, Jan Blunck will chair next meeting. He will poll for the date and time of next meeting.

Regards,
Hemant