Re: [dpdk-moving] Reminder on Today's Meeting and Updated Charter

[Dave Neary <dneary@redhat.com>]

Hi all,

I made a significant insertion/suggestion into the Charter, and asked a
few related questions. The insertion was an attempt to describe the
current state of the technical governance of the DPDK project. Please,
if there are corrections to be made, make them.

My feeling is that this section should be owned by the Technical
Governing Board, not the main Governing Board, so my first question was:
should this be a separate document, referred to in the main doc? That
way, the description of the governance there is not subject to change by
a 2/3rd majority of the governing board (sec 12).

My second question was how much we want to document the current state,
versus the process in the abstract? Should we list the current members
of the TGB, or instead point to a place which will be the definitive
list of the current TGB at all times (including after changes)?

Thirdly, I proposed that we have one at-large Governing Board member,
elected by the technical community, to add some more developer voice,
and potentially diversity from companies who are not members.

Fourthly, do we need to make a distinction between DPDK the software
project and the DPDK Project, the entity which will come into being
under the LF? I ask, because participation in the DPDK software project
is clearly not to be limited to paying members, while participation in
the DPDK Project under the LF is limited to paying companies, for the
most part.

Any feedback/comments/tomatoes to throw?

Thanks,
Dave.

On 11/22/2016 06:08 AM, O'Driscoll, Tim wrote:
> Firstly, just a reminder on today's meeting. It's at 3pm GMT, 4pm CET, 10am EST, 7am PST. Access numbers are:
>     France: +33 1588 77298
>     UK: +44 179340 2663
>     USA: +1 916 356 2663	
>     Bridge Number: 5
>     Conference ID: 94641018
>     Link to Skype meeting: https://meet.intel.com/tim.odriscoll/G7H113HY
> 
> At last week's meeting we had some discussion on the responsibilities of the (Administrative/DPDK/Governing) Board and the Technical Board. We agreed we'd focus on the roles and responsibilities of these two bodies at today's meeting.
> 
> Looking at the draft charter in preparation for today's meeting, responsibilities for these two bodies weren't clearly defined and were in different parts of the document. So, I've consolidated these into a new section 3 on Project Governance which hopefully will make things clearer. We'll walk through this at today's meeting.
> 
> I've made updates in areas where I think we have agreement, but people should feel free to comment if that's not the case. I've added notes on things that I think we haven't yet agreed on and need to discuss.
> 
> I've left the previous text in the document for now and haven't marked any comments on that as resolved. Once we've updated and agreed on the new text, I'll clean the document up, mark comments as resolved, and delete the old parts.
> 
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> 

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