From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga07.intel.com (mga07.intel.com [134.134.136.100]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 497724CC3; Fri, 16 Nov 2018 11:27:05 +0100 (CET) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga002.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.26]) by orsmga105.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 16 Nov 2018 02:27:04 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.56,239,1539673200"; d="scan'208";a="105111326" Received: from aburakov-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.237.220.124]) ([10.237.220.124]) by fmsmga002.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 16 Nov 2018 02:27:03 -0800 To: "Ananyev, Konstantin" , "dev@dpdk.org" Cc: "techboard@dpdk.org" References: <2601191342CEEE43887BDE71AB977258010CEB87CE@IRSMSX106.ger.corp.intel.com> From: "Burakov, Anatoly" Message-ID: Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 10:27:02 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2601191342CEEE43887BDE71AB977258010CEB87CE@IRSMSX106.ger.corp.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK techboard minutes of November 07 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: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 10:27:05 -0000 On 15-Nov-18 6:31 PM, Ananyev, Konstantin wrote: > > Meeting notes for the DPDK technical board meeting > held on 2018-11-07 > > Attendees: > - Bruce Richardson > - Ferruh Yigit > - Konstantin Ananyev > - Maxime Coquelin > - Olivier Matz > - Thomas Monjalon > > 0) Informal discussion about current PPC support status > As brought by Thomas: > They are not active maintainers for 18.05+ releases for Power 8. > IBM currently concentrates on 17.11 LTS. > They plan to be back with 18.11 LTS for Power 9. > Should we declare Power8 not maintained for 18.11 LTS? > Another suggestion was to introduce concept of "secondary supported platforms" > and move PPC to that category > (by analogy with freebsd tiered platforms: > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html). +1, we can't do anything if there are no maintainers, nor can we declare a platform as "supported" for an LTS release if there is no commitment to actually maintain the platform for a number of years. > > 1) Next techboard meeting > - Maxime Coquelin will chair it > -- Thanks, Anatoly