The Meeting on April 25 was cancelled because of Quorum was not present.
Meeting notes for the DPDK technical board meeting
held on 2018-05-09
Attendees:
- Bruce Richardson
- Ferruh Yigit
- Hemant Agrawal
- Jerin Jacob
- Konstantin Ananyev
- Olivier Matz
- Stephen Hemminger
- Thomas Monjalon
0) Check action items from last meetings
- SPDX compliance
- close to %80 done, will continue on next release
- Gaps in new build system
- next release we will continue to ping missing support
- plan new build system switch offline on mail list
- new offloading API switch for PMD interface
- all PMDs switched to new API
- related ethdev layer API change will be discussed offline
1) 18.05 release rc3 status
- The feature list for rc3:
- compressdev
- DPAA2 QDMA raw driver
- DPAA2 Command Interface raw driver
- Hyper-V bus and NetVSC PMD
- Intel FPGA
- BPF
- eventdev crypto adapter
- Anatoly's patches are requiring more review, Konstantin will review some
- Bruce is reviewing ifpga patches
- Agreed to get gcc8 fixes, should get ready ones
- Biggest release and requires more help/review
- Will keep rc3 deadline May 11 Friday, "what is not in, won't be in"
2) BPF Licensing
- Intel legal unblocked patches
- More review required, libelf dependency is concern
- Konstantin will write a small note below the Intel copyright about the legal
decision
- Feels big for 18.05, but decided to include in release
- Ferruh will do build tests as much as possible
3) The Review Process update
- There were no time to discuss, only put following to discuss offline:
- Should there be time limit for patch review?
- regular merge to main repo?
- first come first served? (to reduce last minute peak)
4) Opens
- Project status meeting on Thursdays started recently
- stable release, more pulls before RC1.
- Thomas will re-start discussion via mail
- There was not enough consensus to change current process
5) Next meeting will be on May 23 and Hemant will chair it
