On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 08:52:26 +0100 Olivier Matz <olivier.m...@6wind.com> wrote:
> Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2020-12-16 > > Members Attending > ----------------- > > - Bruce > - Ferruh > - Hemant > - Honnappa > - Jerin > - Kevin > - Konstantin > - Maxime > - Olivier (chair) > - Stephen > - Thomas > > NOTE: The technical board meetings every second Wednesday on Jitsi [0] > at 3pm UTC. Meetings are public and DPDK community members are welcome > to attend. > > NOTE: Next meeting will be on Wednesday 2021-01-13 @3pm UTC, and will be > chaired by Stephen. > > 1/ Lab investments > ================== > > Did current 101k /year investment reach the goal we set up earlier? > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - The lab is currently used for performance tests, CI > - It helped to find some functional bugs > - It is needed for baremetal tests or performance tests (which cannot be > done by a cloud test infrastructure) > - The infrastructure is there, we can use it better > > Governing board asks about the proposal to add 30k /year to increase coverage > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The proposal is to increase from 20 to 40 hours per week coverage, > adding 2 more student employees. > > One issue now is there is one person every 2 days. Is it possible to > have the same coverage hours, but having an every-day presence? > > Governing board asks Techboard to come with a single name as lab owner > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > A lab owner is a project manager that tracks what was agreed to do, and > find some help if needed. Ideally, it is a technical person used to > develop in DPDK. > > No good solution was found. The following ideas have been mentioned: > > a/ Round-robin from techboard? A quarterly basis is too short compared > to ramp-up time, and longer periods are too long for one person. > b/ Can it be managed by Linux Foundation? (maybe ask Trishan?) > c/ Nobody > > Question to ask to Govboard: > > - What is the detail of the costs (infrastructure, electricity, people)? > > Distributed CI should be high priority, therefore sharing test scripts > is important. It might be easier for a company to pay someone working in > its own lab. I would like to not take all of tomorrows meeting discussing the CI lab. What are the action items still left on this topic?
