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* Re: [dpdk-dev] Beyond DPDK 2.0
@ 2015-04-30 21:31 Wiles, Keith
  2015-04-30 21:38 ` Wiles, Keith
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 58+ messages in thread
From: Wiles, Keith @ 2015-04-30 21:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dev


(I snipped out the content here only because it had been snipped a lot
already)

Sorry, if I am highjacking the thread.

I believe the DPDK community would benefit from moving to GitHub as the
primary DPDK site. http://github.com

I believe the DPDK community can benefit from being at a very well know
world wide site. GitHub seems to have the most eyes of any of the open
source Git repos today and it appears they have more then twice as many
developers. GitHub has a number of features I see as some good additions to
our community using the GitHub organization account type.

The cost for an organization account is $0 as long as we do not need more
then 5 private repos. 10 private repos is $25/month and had other plans
for more. I do not see us needing more then 5 private repos today and the
only reason I can see having a private repo is to do some prep work on the
repo before making public. Every contributor would need to create a GitHub
personal account, which is at no cost unless you need more then 5 private
repos. In both accounts you can have unlimited public repos.

https://help.github.com/articles/where-can-i-find-open-source-projects-to-w
ork-on/

http://www.sitepoint.com/using-git-open-source-projects/

- Adding more committers can lead to a security problems for 6Wind (I
assume).
- 6Wind appearing to own DPDK.org is not a good message to the community.
  - Not assuming 6Wind¹s dpdk.org site will disappear only where the
community stores the master repos and how the community interacts with the
master.
- Permission and access levels in dpdk.org is only one level and we can
benefit from having 4 levels and teams as well.
- The patch process today suffers from timely reviews, which will not be
fixed by moving.
  - GitHub has a per pull request discussions area, which gives a clean
way to
review all discussions on a specific change.
    - The current patch model is clone dpdk.org/modify/commit/send patch
set
    - The model with GitHub is fork on GitHub/modify/commit/send pull
request
- The patchwork web site is reasonable, but has some draw backs in
maintaining the site.
  - GitHub manages the patches via pull requests and can be easily seen
via a web browser.
  - The down side is you do have to use a web browser to do some work, but
the everyday work would be done as it is today.
    - I think we all have a web browser now :-)
- GitHub has team support and gives a group better control plus
collaboration is much easier as we have a external location to work.
  - Most companies have some pretty high security level and being to
collaborate between two or more companies is very difficult if one company
is hosting the repo behind a firewall.
  - Using GitHub and teams would make collaboration a lot easier or
collaboration between two or more user accounts as well.
- GitHub has a Web Page system, which can be customized for the community
needs via a public or private repo.
- We still need a dpdk.org email list I believe as I did not find one at
GitHub.
  - We can also forward GitHub emails to the list.
  - I believe you can reply to an email from GitHub and the email will get
appended to the discussion thread.

As most do not like to read long emails :-) I will stop here and add one
more thing.

I have create a sandbox on GitHub for anyone to play with using GitHub.
You will need to create a GitHub account and an email me your account name
to add you to the organization site as a contributor.

The GitHub site is not a fork of dpdk.org only a sandbox to play with how
GitHub can help the community to gain more developers in a clean manner.

Regards
++Keith

 

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* [dpdk-dev] Beyond DPDK 2.0
@ 2015-04-16 10:38 O'Driscoll, Tim
  2015-04-22 15:11 ` O'Driscoll, Tim
  2015-04-24  7:47 ` Luke Gorrie
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 58+ messages in thread
From: O'Driscoll, Tim @ 2015-04-16 10:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dev

Following the launch of DPDK by Intel as an internal development project, the launch of dpdk.org by 6WIND in 2013, and the first DPDK RPM packages for Fedora in 2014, 6WIND, Red Hat and Intel would like to prepare for future releases after DPDK 2.0 by starting a discussion on its evolution. Anyone is welcome to join this initiative.
 
Since then, the project has grown significantly:
-    The number of commits and mailing list posts has increased steadily.
-    Support has been added for a wide range of new NICs (Mellanox support submitted by 6WIND, Cisco VIC, Intel i40e and fm10k etc.).
-    DPDK is now supported on multiple architectures (IBM Power support in DPDK 1.8, Tile support submitted by EZchip but not yet reviewed or applied).

While this is great progress, we need to make sure that the project is structured in a way that enables it to continue to grow. To achieve this, 6WIND, Red Hat and Intel would like to start a discussion about the future of the project, so that we can agree and establish processes that satisfy the needs of the current and future DPDK community.

We're very interested in hearing the views of everybody in the community. In addition to debate on the mailing list, we'll also schedule community calls to discuss this.


Project Goals
-------------
                                                                                                                                      
Some topics to be considered for the DPDK project include:
-    Project Charter: The charter of the DPDK project should be clearly defined, and should explain the limits of DPDK (what it does and does not cover). This does not mean that we would be stuck with a singular charter for all time, but the direction and intent of the project should be well understood. 
-    Project Contributions:  We want to continue to grow the size and diversity of the DPDK contributor community.
-    Project Presence: Maximise the impact of the DPDK project by ensuring that it has a strong brand and industry perception. Growing awareness of DPDK as a project is important to growing the community and giving people confidence in using DPDK as part of their product offerings.
-    Project Process: The project needs a clear decision making process to resolve issues that don't reach a conclusion on the mailing list.

  
References to Open Source Projects
----------------------------------
 
Governance structures for open source projects vary widely. For reference, below are some examples with links to their governance info. Some are home grown, while others avail of the infrastructure provided by organisations such as the Linux Foundation. Some are more formal, while others are more lightweight. Each approach has its advantages and disadvantages.

DPDK (http://dpdk.org/):
- Maintainers are listed in http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/MAINTAINERS
- Process for contributing is outlined in the "Contribute by sending patches" section of http://dpdk.org/dev

Open vSwitch (http://openvswitch.org/):
- Committer Grant/Revocation: http://openvswitch.org/development/committer-grant-revocation/
- Committer Responsibilities: http://openvswitch.org/development/committer-responsibilities/
 
OpenStack (http://www.openstack.org/):
- Governance Model: http://www.openstack.org/foundation/
- Technical Committee: http://www.openstack.org/foundation/tech-committee/
- Board of Directors: http://www.openstack.org/foundation/board-of-directors/
- User Committee: http://www.openstack.org/foundation/user-committee/
 
OpenDaylight (http://www.opendaylight.org/):
- Linux Foundation
- Governance: http://www.opendaylight.org/project/governance
- Technical Steering Committee: http://www.opendaylight.org/project/governance/tsc
- Board of Directors: http://www.opendaylight.org/project/board-members
 
CloudStack (http://cloudstack.apache.org/):
- Apache Foundation
- Project Management Committee & Committers: http://cloudstack.apache.org/who.html
- The Apache Way: http://theapacheway.com/

QEMU (http://wiki.qemu.org/Main_Page):
- Structure: http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere
- Process: http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch

U-Boot (http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/):
- Maintainers: http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Custodians
- Process: http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/DevelopmentProcess
- Guidelines: http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches


Thank you

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2015-04-22 15:33   ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-04-23 11:36     ` O'Driscoll, Tim
2015-04-24 21:02       ` Dave Neary
2015-05-07 14:02   ` Avi Kivity
2015-05-07 14:34     ` Ivan Boule
2015-05-07 15:27     ` Wiles, Keith
2015-05-07 15:33       ` Avi Kivity
2015-05-07 15:33       ` Avi Kivity
2015-05-07 15:49         ` Wiles, Keith
2015-05-07 16:05           ` Avi Kivity
2015-05-08  4:16             ` Wiles, Keith
2015-05-08  5:29               ` Luke Gorrie
2015-05-08  9:06                 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-05-08  9:32                   ` Luke Gorrie
2015-05-08  9:42                     ` Bruce Richardson
2015-05-08 10:02                       ` Luke Gorrie
2015-05-08 14:44                 ` Wiles, Keith
2015-05-08 16:16                   ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-05-08 10:26               ` Hobywan Kenoby
2015-05-08 13:31                 ` Neil Horman
2015-05-08 16:22                   ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-05-07 15:34     ` Luke Gorrie
2015-05-08  4:31       ` Wiles, Keith
2015-04-24  7:47 ` Luke Gorrie
2015-04-24 15:29   ` O'Driscoll, Tim
2015-04-24 17:00     ` Neil Horman
2015-04-26  9:07       ` Luke Gorrie
2015-04-24 17:39   ` Jay Rolette
2015-04-24 17:51     ` Matthew Hall
2015-04-25 13:30       ` Marc Sune
2015-04-25 16:08         ` Wiles, Keith
2015-04-26 21:56           ` Neil Horman
2015-04-27  2:29             ` Jim Thompson
2015-04-27 13:07               ` Neil Horman
2015-04-27 16:07               ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-04-28  7:20               ` Dor Laor
     [not found]             ` <D162FA4E.1DED8%keith.wiles@intel.com>
2015-04-27  9:52               ` Marc Sune
2015-04-27 13:39                 ` Wiles, Keith
2015-04-27 15:34                   ` Marc Sune
2015-04-27 10:29               ` Neil Horman
2015-04-27 13:50                 ` Wiles, Keith
2015-04-27 15:23                   ` Neil Horman
2015-04-27 12:38             ` Dave Neary
2015-04-27 13:41               ` Neil Horman
2015-04-27 16:09               ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-04-24 18:12     ` Matt Laswell
2015-04-24 18:51       ` Neil Horman
2015-04-24 19:55         ` Jay Rolette
2015-04-25 12:10           ` Neil Horman
2015-04-27 13:46             ` Jay Rolette
2015-04-28 17:26               ` Neil Horman
2015-04-28 20:02                 ` Jay Rolette
2015-04-28  6:22             ` Matthew Hall
2015-04-28 17:48   ` Stephen Hemminger

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