From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC7AA0C41; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:29:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CC344014D; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:29:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga17.intel.com (mga17.intel.com [192.55.52.151]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7758740143; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:29:12 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6200,9189,10045"; a="190885721" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.84,240,1620716400"; d="scan'208";a="190885721" Received: from orsmga002.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.21]) by fmsmga107.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 15 Jul 2021 02:29:10 -0700 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.84,240,1620716400"; d="scan'208";a="430765860" Received: from vlambe-mobl4.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com) ([10.252.5.22]) by orsmga002-auth.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 15 Jul 2021 02:29:08 -0700 Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 10:29:04 +0100 From: Bruce Richardson To: techboard@dpdk.org Cc: dev@dpdk.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [dpdk-dev] Techboard - minutes of meeting 2021-07-14 X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Attendees --------- * Aaron Conole * Bruce Richardson * Ferruh Yigit * Hemant Agrawal * Honnappa Nagarahalli * Jerin Jacob * Kevin Traynor * Konstantin Ananyev * Stephen Hemminger * Thomas Monjalon Minutes ------- 1. Readout on survey on next-net maintainership * Ferruh provided a summary of results of a survey he carried out with driver maintainers and techboard for feedback on the next-net tree he maintains. * Unfortunately response rate was very low * Key feedback received in survey: * working with patches on mailing list is found to be difficult, with large volumes of mails * submitters found it awkward to have to do patchwork updates manually on sending new patch revisions * request for more user-friendly tooling workflow * Techboard held a discussion on a possible trial of using other tools for development workflow in the future. Largely requires a tree maintainer to volunteer to run such a trial for a release period to investigate how it works and what issues are discovered. 2. ABI/API compatibility and expanded ABI-stability window * Proposal has been sent out to TB and maintainers on increasing the ABI compatibility period to 2 years from 1 year. * Lack of general feedback on this * Work is ongoing to identify and address ABI concerns within DPDK project. Maintainers are asked to help with identifying issues in their own areas of expertise. * Discussion was help on changing to 2-year ABI period immediately for 21.11 or to do so after a review next year. No clear consensus emerged * ACTION: Ferruh/Thomas to send out patch to DPDK mailing list on ABI: * To clarify 2-year proposal specifically * To expand discussion wider to the whole development community. 3. US DPDK Event * the lower than expected attendance numbers was noted * some discussion on selection criteria and avoidance of very vendor-specific content for future events * general hope within TB for in-person events rather than virtual next year! 4. Techboard Membership * Hemant led some initial discussion on latest document draft * ACTION: All-TB-Members, (re)review latest document on Techboard governance.