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Meetings are public, and DPDK community members are welcome to attend. NOTE: Next meeting will be on Wednesday 2024- Nov - 26th @3pm UTC, and will= be chaired by Honnappa =20 # LTS Maintainer Update - Xiaoming resigned as LTS maintainer for DPDK 23.11. - A call for volunteers was posted on the tech board mailing list. - Shani Peretz volunteered and was unanimously approved as the new LTS main= tainer for 23.11. - Kevin and Luca will support Shani during the onboarding process. =20 # Driver Maintenance Discussion =20 A general discussion was held regarding the current state of maintenance fo= r the BNXT driver and how the community can better support long-term sustainability across all dr= ivers. =20 =20 - Community Discussion * Emphasis on maintaining a consistent quality baseline across all DPDK dri= vers. * Importance of clear maintainer expectations and sufficient resources. * Acknowledgement that hardware diversity limits full validation by subsyst= em maintainers. * Alignment between vendors and community contributors viewed as essential = for driver reliability. * All core components (drivers and libraries) should follow similar quality= and maintenance guidelines. =20 - Discussion was collaborative and focused on improving processes, not rest= ricting or removing drivers. =20 - Potential improvements considered: * Adding support-level tags in the maintainers file to increase clarity on = driver support status for users. * Updating documentation to better communicate expectations for new or evol= ving drivers. =20 =20 # Follow-up / Action Items =20 - Await update from Ajit regarding the new Broadcom maintainer. - Await Broadcom's plan for ongoing BNXT branch maintenance. - Discuss adding support-level flags to the maintainers file. - Consider updates to documentation or policy for driver quality expectatio= ns.