[dpdk-dev] DPDK Community Call - 16.04 Retrospective - Wednesday May 11th

[dpdk-dev] DPDK Community Call - 16.04 Retrospective - Wednesday May 11th

[O'Driscoll, Tim]

At the end of each release, we typically hold a retrospective within our development team to discuss what went well, what could be improved etc. For 16.04, we thought it would be a good idea to try doing this with the open source community, so that everybody involved in the project can provide their input and we can discuss any suggested improvements collectively.

Mike Glynn, who's our Program Manager for DPDK, will facilitate the discussion. John McNamara has gathered some stats on things like how many revisions patches typically went through etc., which we'll present to help initiate the discussion, but the meeting should mostly be an open discussion where people should feel free to suggest any improvements they think we should make.

If the approach is successful we can repeat it for future releases.


When:
London (United Kingdom - England)        Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 4PM    BST  UTC+1 hour     
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Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK Community Call - 16.04 Retrospective - Wednesday May 11th

[Glynn, Michael J]

Hi all
Just a reminder about the 16.04 Retrospective Call tomorrow. All the call-in details are provided in Tim's email below 

Chat then!
Mike 


-----Original Message-----
From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of O'Driscoll, Tim
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 3:09 PM
To: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: [dpdk-dev] DPDK Community Call - 16.04 Retrospective - Wednesday May 11th

At the end of each release, we typically hold a retrospective within our development team to discuss what went well, what could be improved etc. For 16.04, we thought it would be a good idea to try doing this with the open source community, so that everybody involved in the project can provide their input and we can discuss any suggested improvements collectively.

Mike Glynn, who's our Program Manager for DPDK, will facilitate the discussion. John McNamara has gathered some stats on things like how many revisions patches typically went through etc., which we'll present to help initiate the discussion, but the meeting should mostly be an open discussion where people should feel free to suggest any improvements they think we should make.

If the approach is successful we can repeat it for future releases.


When:
London (United Kingdom - England)        Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 4PM    BST  UTC+1 hour     
San Jose (USA - California)              Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 8AM    PDT  UTC-7 hours    
Boston (USA - Massachusetts)             Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 11AM   EDT  UTC-4 hours    
Paris (France - Île-de-France)           Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 5PM    CEST UTC+2 hours    
New Delhi (India - Delhi)                Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 8:30PM IST  UTC+5:30 hours 
Shanghai (China - Shanghai Municipality) Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 11PM   CST  UTC+8 hours    
Tokyo (Japan)                            Midnight between Wednesday, May 11 and Thursday, May 12 JST  UTC+9 hours    


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Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.
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Austria : +43 7 2088 1033
Belgium : +32 (0) 28 93 7001
Canada : +1 (647) 497-9379
Denmark : +45 69 91 89 33
Finland : +358 (0) 942 41 5770
France : +33 (0) 170 950 585
Germany : +49 (0) 692 5736 7303
Ireland : +353 (0) 19 030 050
Italy : +39 0 693 38 75 50
Netherlands : +31 (0) 208 080 208
New Zealand : +64 9 925 0481
Norway : +47 21 54 82 21
Spain : +34 911 82 9890
Sweden : +46 (0) 853 527 817
Switzerland : +41 (0) 435 0167 65
United Kingdom : +44 (0) 330 221 0099

Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK Community Call - 16.04 Retrospective - Wednesday May 11th

[Glynn, Michael J]

Meeting Minutes for Community Call - May 11th 2014

Topic: DPDK 16.04 Retrospective 
Facilitators: Mike Glynn (Intel), John McNamara (Intel)

Attendees: Christian Ehrhardt, Hemant Agrawal, Jan Viktorin, Mauricio Vasquez, Mike Holmes, Stephen Hemminger, Thomas Monjalon, Naoyuki Mori, Tom Gall, Konstantin Ananyev, Mike Glynn, John McNamara, Mohammad Abdul Awal, Bruce Richardson, Declan Doherty, Roy Fan Zhan, Ferruh Yigit, Bernard Iremonger, Reshma Pattan, Remy Horton, Vadim Sukhomlinov, Shanmukha Sreedhar Theerthala

Minutes:
*	IRC chat channel was opened up the discussion (see notes captured below). IRC Channel: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23dpdk
*	John McNamara reviewed some statistics from 16.04, which included;
o	Number of commits per release - averaging ~700
o	Number of contributors per release - ~100 for the past two releases
o	Unique "Reviewed-by" contributors is very low (7 in least release) 
o	Number of "fix" patches - 301 
o	Number of patches with a "Fixes:" line - has grown from 45 in DPDK2.0 to 261 in 16.04 (attributed to greater compliance to using the "fixes" line)
o	Number of patchset revisions in v16.04 - vast majority at v1 (199) 
o	Days between Author Date and Commit Date - 50% of final patches are merged within 7 days, 75% of final patches are merged within 14 days, "Final" patch means the last version, when all v1..vN comments have been addressed

*	Discussion on Areas for Improvement:
o	John Mc: 'Reviewed by' numbers are low. Thomas: this is likely because people don't distinguish between 'reviewed by' and 'acked'. Agreed that there is still value in retaining the reviewed-by tag.
o	Stephen H: Need more active reviews in the community. Suggested that the Maintainers could delegate to others on the mailing list. Maintainers - please take note.
o	Thomas M: Having a large number of v1's being applied may not be a good thing...would prefer to see higher number of patch revisions since it shows community review process is working better. Reviews are the area which require the most improvement. 
o	Christian E: Packaging of DPDK - any community pushback to package something working almost everywhere but optimized where supported. No objections - Christian will post to the mailing list next week. http://udrepper.livejournal.com/20948.html 
o	Documentation gaps in (1) RTE table library, and (2) ACL need to be addressed. Please discussion on the mailing list, submit patches, or ping John McNamara (documentation maintainer)
o	Mike G: Is the RFC process working? There is usually very little feedback on RFC's. Thomas commented that RFC's are still useful, suggested using header file (with Doxygen comments) as an RFC format.

IRC Chat Notes:
[16:09] == reshmapa [c0c6972b@gateway/web/freenode/ip.192.198.151.43] has joined #DPDK
[16:16] <tmonjalo> Not enough public reviews
[16:17] <tmonjalo> Fixes: lines are increasing (good for maintenance)
[16:20] <tmonjalo> A lot of patches are committed late in the cycle
[16:22] <cpaelzer> just for the minutes - since the call mentioned some missing commit stats - If I didn't mistype that should be 2.2 -> 16.04 - Authors: http://paste.ubuntu.com/16363502/   Domains: http://paste.ubuntu.com/16363543/ 
[16:29] == nijopa [~nijopa@72.246.0.14] has quit [Quit: Leaving.]
[16:33] == nijopa [~nijopa@72.246.0.14] has joined #DPDK
[16:35] <tmonjalo> not for minutes: audio quality is bad from some speakers - really hard to understand
[16:36] == yliu [yliu131@nat/intel/x-phwergujuqevebif] has joined #DPDK
[16:39] <cpaelzer> I wanted at least see how the idea at all reflects with the community - http://udrepper.livejournal.com/20948.html 
[16:39] <cpaelzer> that would allow Distributions to package something working almost everywhere but optimized where supported
[16:39] <cpaelzer> there were no hard opinions on it yet, I'll bring something to the mailing list (prob. next week)

Please feel free to reply if I missed something/captured incorrectly