Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2021-03-10 Members Attending: - Aaron Conole - Bruce Richardson - Ferruh Yigit - Hemant Agrawal - Honnappa Nagarahalli (Chair) - Jerin Jacob - Kevin Traynor - Konstantin Ananyev - Maxime Coquelin - Olivier Matz - Stephen Hemminger - Thomas Monjalon
NOTE: The Technical Board meetings take place every second Wednesday on https://meet.jit.si/DPDK at 3 pm UTC. Meetings are public, and DPDK community members are welcome to attend. Agenda and minutes can be found at http://core.dpdk.org/techboard/minutes NOTE: Next meeting will be on Wednesday 2021-03-24 @3pm UTC, and will be chaired by Jerin. #1 Build config improvement proposal * Discussion centered around the following issues - Ability to enable/disable compilation of libraries and PMDs. There was no objection from the techboard members on the requirement. - Ability to enable/disable #defines - Ability to tune the values of #defines * Few prominent points discussed - This will result in #ifdefs in the code (for ex: in testpmd) - One option is for all the PMDs to document their configurable #defines in PMD specific header files. Having these distributed is much easier to search. - Can some of the existing #defines be converted to runtime configurations? For ex: RTE_MAX_LCORE? This might impact ABI. * Bruce to think about converting the doc to a blog or an email on the mailing list. But soliciting feedback is most important. #2 DMARC on mailing list * Ali Alnubani is working on the issue and will have a mailing list to test #3 Documenting criteria on adding/removing members to technical board * Thomas has sent patches to the Techboard. Board members to review and provide feedback. #4 Criteria for adding new members to security team? * Being known to members of the Techboard would be one criteria. * AI: Ferruh to put out a document or email to propose the criteria #5 Testing leader's role definition * AI: Aaron Conole has it completed and will send it to the Techboard. #6 Approval for blog on C11 adoption * Konstantin has provided the comments * Awaiting comments from PPC maintainers #7 Update on DTS usability * Intel engineers working on DTS are involved in providing the feedback * If the test cases can be added to the unit tests, it should be allowed as well. i.e. DTS should not be made mandatory. This will provide flexibility for developers.
