From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B830A04B5; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 09:54:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C06951C0CE; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 09:54:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga06.intel.com (mga06.intel.com [134.134.136.31]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A197C255; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 09:54:08 +0200 (CEST) IronPort-SDR: 6P9jpb267xGrDwOQ/9rmJJ3dSx+fzkFbKn6BGvhgDj/WwZvle7+XiJSyzqc12uXvQ+fieVTVIs xZPVb710/etw== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6000,8403,9739"; a="220046758" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.76,412,1592895600"; d="scan'208";a="220046758" X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga008.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.58]) by orsmga104.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 10 Sep 2020 00:54:07 -0700 IronPort-SDR: 7Yg9dICjNe04NFKYk8NvpwXF1dZ4NjFN9HBjpUdEkEDe5pZAoODkRR/ZmXbki5hMQflbSUITnx OrwuyApz+Fgw== X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.76,412,1592895600"; d="scan'208";a="286490573" Received: from irsmsx601.ger.corp.intel.com ([163.33.146.7]) by fmsmga008.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 10 Sep 2020 00:54:05 -0700 Received: from irsmsx601.ger.corp.intel.com (163.33.146.7) by irsmsx601.ger.corp.intel.com (163.33.146.7) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.1713.5; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 08:54:05 +0100 Received: from irsmsx601.ger.corp.intel.com ([163.33.146.7]) by irsmsx601.ger.corp.intel.com ([163.33.146.7]) with mapi id 15.01.1713.004; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 08:54:05 +0100 From: "Richardson, Bruce" To: "dev@dpdk.org" CC: "techboard@dpdk.org" Thread-Topic: Minutes of Technical Board meeting 2020-09-09 Thread-Index: AdaHRxj71Bk/JfslReCJP9MTzurIYw== Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 07:54:05 +0000 Message-ID: Accept-Language: en-GB, en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: dlp-version: 11.5.1.3 dlp-product: dlpe-windows dlp-reaction: no-action x-originating-ip: [163.33.253.164] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [dpdk-dev] Minutes of Technical Board meeting 2020-09-09 X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 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" Members Attending: ------------------- Bruce Richardson Ferruh Yigit Honnappa Nagarahalli Jerin Jacob Kevin Traynor Konstantin Ananyev Maxime Coquelin Olivier Matz Stephen Hemminger Thomas Monjalon The technical board meetings takes place every second Wednesday on IRC chan= nel #dpdk-board, at 3pm UTC. Meetings are public and DPDK community members= are welcome to attend. NOTE: Technical Board meetings for 2020-08-12 and 2020-08-26 were cancelled= due to holidays in August. Minutes -------- #1 Reminder to all Techboard members to volunteer as moderators for session= in the virtual DPDK Userspace event later this month. #2 Requiring unit tests for contributions to DPDK: * Discussion focused mainly on the areas of flow APIs and similar areas = of DPDK which cannot be tested easily using "dpdk-test" unit test binary * Concern was expressed about DTS usability, and lack of widespread use = in developer community. * Concern was also raised about mandating tests for features while DTS i= s in a separate repo from DPDK - and which uses a separate patch mailing li= st. * **Action for all Techboard members**: Evaluate DTS to determine the us= ability pain-points and be able to discuss plan to improve it. #3 Development of unit tests at UNH: * Many of the same concerns raised as in previous discussion * Flow APIs would be one area where more work would be needed * Improvements to DTS itself was felt to be the highest priority initial= ly * Currently lacking specifics of tasks to be undertaken, this needs to b= e prepared before any work can start * No volunteer from Techboard right now to take responsibility for direc= ting that effort. * **Action for all Techboard members**: members to attend the regular CI= meetings whenever possible * **Action**: Kevin to forward invite to all TB members (done) #4 Request for Technical Writer to help with DPDK documentation: * Spec for work was already started over email previously * **Action**: Bruce to take existing discussion emails and begin documen= t based on that. Other items deferred for next meeting. --- Next meeting will be on 2020-09-23, and will be chaired by Ferruh.