Meeting notes for the DPDK technical board meeting held on 2018-07-31
Attendees:
- Bruce Richardson
- Ferruh Yigit
- Hemant Agrawal
- Jerin Jacob
- Maxime Coquelin
- Stephen Hemminger
- Thomas Monjalon
1) Security process updates
- The governing board acknowledges the security process
- Last governing board meeting didn't covered the technical board
request for LF to become a CNA
- Stephen to do the request at the next governing board meeting
2) SPDX licences
- Still some subsystems not compliant with SPDK, target is still v19.11
- Hemant sent a reminder on DPDK dev mailing-list
- Hemant will give a status update at next meeting
3) DPDK community survey follow-up
- 39% of the respondents said they do not get enough reviews
* Situation has improved since we have more sub-trees
* Could further be improved if maintainers asked trusted contributors
to help reviewing patches
* In case the contributor feels the review process does not work, he
should e-mail the techboard
* Thomas and Honnappa to update the contribution documentation and
send a pointer to that doc on the dev mailing-list
4) DPDK API/ABI Stability discussions
- Ray prepared a v2 of the policy patch, main changes:
* Change to 1 year initial ABI stability period, with a review
afterward to elongate the stability period
* Changes to the handling of experimental and depreciation process
- Open question is from where to start the major ABI version numbering.
* Should it be the year of the declaration of stable ABI version?
* Or start at v3.0 and continue from there?
* Bruce mentioned that we already have libraries at version > 10, so
using 3 would not work
* Techboard voted to use the year of stabilization as starting point.
5) Next meeting
- On 2019-08-14, Stephen will chair it.
