[dpdk-dev] DPDK Techboard minutes of June 6

[dpdk-dev] DPDK Techboard minutes of June 6

[Hemant Agrawal]

Meeting notes for the DPDK technical board meeting held on 2018-06-06

Attendees:
	- Bruce Richardson
	- Ferruh Yigit
	- Hemant Agrawal
	- Jerin Jacob
	- Maxime Coquelin
	- Olivier Matz
	- Stephen Hemminger
	- Thomas Monjalon

1) Techboard rep in DPDK Gov Board

- Stephen will be new tech board rep succeeding Maxime. Olivier gave it a pass. 

2) DPDK API Stability discussion

- A sub-group is working on how to improve ABI/API stability and will come with a proposal as update to versioning.html and stable.html. Sub-group consist of Ray, Bruce, Stephen and Kevin.
- Ray sent a proposal within sub-group for review. 
- There will be a status update in next TB meeting (June 19).
- Jerin suggested that API stability should not come at the cost of performance regression. 
- Ray is proposing a panel discussion on ABI Compatibility for DPDK Userspace. He will choose the panelists. 

3) discussion to extend Techboard membership
 -  proposed to discuss Techboard membership in 1 month time. 

4) Userspace summit CFP deadline over.
- Proposals are under review.

5) Next meeting will be on June 19 and Jerin will chair it

Thanks,
Hemant

[dpdk-dev] DPDK techboard minutes of June 6

[Jerin Jacob]

Meeting notes for the DPDK technical board meeting held on 2018-06-06

Attendees:
        - Bruce Richardson
        - Ferruh Yigit
        - Hemant Agrawal
        - Jerin Jacob
        - Konstantin Ananyev
        - Olivier Matz
        - Thomas Monjalon


0) The Review Process - Timelines

a) A patch without any comments for 3 weeks shall be considered for apply to 
subtree or main tree by the respective tree maintainer.

b) Once a patch has been acked by the relevant maintainer, reviewers may still
comment on it for a further two weeks.
After that time, the patch should be merged into the relevant git tree for the next release.
It is documented at http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/contributing/patches.html#steps-to-getting-your-patch-merged

c) Thomas will try to pull the changes from every subtree weekly. 
The planned day is Thursday/Friday.

Sub tree maintainer can choose private pull request or specific branch scheme to share 
the tree based on subtree maintainer and Thomas's preference.

1) New dpdk website by the Linux Foundation 

a) Linux Foundation is working on a new dpdk website and its URL is
https://dpdk.lfprojects.linuxfoundation.org/
b) Encourage everyone to review and provide feedback and/or report
missing links such as (mailman, cgit, git, patchwork, bugzilla, doc, etc)

3) Next meeting will be on June 20 and Konstantin will chair it