Attendees
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* Aaron Conole
* Bruce Richardson
* Ferruh Yigit
* Hemant Agrawal
* Honnappa Nagarahalli
* Jerin Jacob
* Kevin Traynor
* Konstantin Ananyev
* Stephen Hemminger
* Thomas Monjalon
Minutes
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1. Readout on survey on next-net maintainership
* Ferruh provided a summary of results of a survey he carried out with
driver maintainers and techboard for feedback on the next-net tree he
maintains.
* Unfortunately response rate was very low
* Key feedback received in survey:
* working with patches on mailing list is found to be difficult, with
large volumes of mails
* submitters found it awkward to have to do patchwork updates manually on
sending new patch revisions
* request for more user-friendly tooling workflow
* Techboard held a discussion on a possible trial of using other tools for
development workflow in the future. Largely requires a tree maintainer to
volunteer to run such a trial for a release period to investigate how it
works and what issues are discovered.
2. ABI/API compatibility and expanded ABI-stability window
* Proposal has been sent out to TB and maintainers on increasing the ABI
compatibility period to 2 years from 1 year.
* Lack of general feedback on this
* Work is ongoing to identify and address ABI concerns within DPDK project.
Maintainers are asked to help with identifying issues in their own areas
of expertise.
* Discussion was help on changing to 2-year ABI period immediately for
21.11 or to do so after a review next year. No clear consensus emerged
* ACTION: Ferruh/Thomas to send out patch to DPDK mailing list on ABI:
* To clarify 2-year proposal specifically
* To expand discussion wider to the whole development community.
3. US DPDK Event
* the lower than expected attendance numbers was noted
* some discussion on selection criteria and avoidance of very
vendor-specific content for future events
* general hope within TB for in-person events rather than virtual next
year!
4. Techboard Membership
* Hemant led some initial discussion on latest document draft
* ACTION: All-TB-Members, (re)review latest document on Techboard
governance.
