Members Attending: 5
- Bruce Richardson
- Honnappa Nagarahalli (Chair)
- Kevin Traynor
- Konstantin Ananyev
- Maxime Coquelin
- 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 2022-09-07 @3pm UTC, and will be
chaired by Hemant.
1) Jim, St Leger has resigned from DPDK Governing Board.
2) User space event updates
a) All registration fees are waived. The money for existing
registration has been/will be refunded.
b) Hackathon details finalized. Virtual attendance is not supported.
c) Techboard meeting will be held after Hackathon. Virtual attendance
is supported. Nathan will ensure there is a meeting notice.
d) Storage request is clarified - agreed for S3 storage, starting with
100G. This may be moved to glacier later (which is slower but cheaper).
3) Tech-writer hiring status
a) Thomas is reviewing some of the profiles Nathan has sent
4) DTS WG next steps
a) DTS WG patches are in the community from sometime, they need to be
reviewed.
b) Agreed that reviewing is not one person's responsibility, should be
reviewed by the community.
c) DTS WG will send out the roadmap for 22.11 release
d) Agreed that merging the DTS WG with DPDK CI would provide more
visibility for DTS WG. Honnappa to initiate a conversation with Lincoln and
Aaron on this proposal.
5) Need a process to choose the minimum supported version for Meson
a) The process to identify the minimum supported version of Meson will
be discussed in the DPDK dev mailing list.
b) Rules on deprecating supported distro versions
i) Running CentOS Stream, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, RedHat, Debian,
Fedora, Alpine Linux, FreeBSD. There are enough compute cycles for running
tests on all these distros.
ii) In general end-of-lifed versions should be dropped. However,
iii) For distros with long support life, we can drop the
support after 5 years. However,
iv) For RHEL, dropping support should be discussed with
TechBoard. For now, support for RHEL 6 and earlier can be dropped.
c) Owen Hilyard will send out a proposal on the supported distros and
supported versions to the mailing list.
6) Agreed to stop using our own Elixir server and will use Bootlin's Elixir for
DPDK. Thomas will change the required links.
