Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2022-Nov-16

Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2022-Nov-16

[Maxime Coquelin]

Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2022-Nov-16

Members Attending
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∘ Maxime Coquelin
∘ Thomas Monjalon
∘ Kevin Traynor
∘ Hemant Agrawal
∘ Bruce Richardson
∘ Konstantin Ananyev
∘ Jerin Jacob
∘ Honnappa Nagarahalli
∘ Aaron Conole

NOTE: The technical board meetings every second Wednesday at 
https://meet.jit.si/DPDK at 3 pm UTC.
Meetings are public, and DPDK community members are welcome to attend.

NOTE: Next meeting will be on Wednesday 2022-Nov-30 @3pm UTC, and will 
be chaired by Stephen

1) Governing Board updates
  - Nathan provided an update about the Governing board chair election.
    Rashid Khan (Red Hat) has been voted in as the new chair.
  - A vice-chair role creation is being drafted.

2) Techwritter hiring updates
  - One candidate has been identified, compensation discussions to be
    engaged.

3) DPDK blog update
  - Governing boards minutes are now placed in a dedicated section.

4) MIT license exception
  - Exception for GVE base driver has been approved
  - Generic approval process under discussions at the Governing board
    level, waiting for legal advice.

5) BBDEV tree maintainership
  - Crypto tree will no more pull BBDEV patches.
  - Techboard voted in for a dedicated repo creation, with Maxime
    Coquelin maintaining it.

6) LTS maintenance for 2023
  - Kevin Traynor sent a mail to LTS maintainers and Techboard members to
    collect feedback for 2023 LTS maintenance.