Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2023-March-22 Members Attending ----------------- -Aaron -Bruce -Hemant -Jerin -Kevin (Chair) -Maxime -Stephen -Thomas
NOTE: The technical board meetings every second Wednesday at https://meet.jit.si/DPDK at 3 pm UTC. Meetings are public, and DPDK community members are welcome to attend. NOTE: Next meeting will be on Wednesday 2023-April-05 @3pm UTC, and will be chaired by Konstantin. 1) Marketing update (Nathan) -We need to provide content to maximise the marketing resources -A good example is Morten's content on using DPDK https://www.dpdk.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/02/DPDK_UserStory_SmartShare_020223.pdf 2) Event planning (Nathan) -Dublin in September is most likely venue -Difficult to estimate in-person attendance based on previous years and economic environment -Nathan will send out a survey to try and gauge interest for in-person attendance 3) Technical Writer (Nathan) -The hiring interviews are currently in progress. 4) Policy for obsolete patches (Bruce) -A lot of pages in patchwork, should older patches be moved to a new obsolete state? -Adding a new state would cause difficulties for patchwork upgrade -Reject state could be used -A script to do automatically and send an email with links etc would be best -Ali may be able to investigate a way to automate this 5) Code formatting tools (Bruce) -Any way to better automate formatting of code? -clang-format was suggested and already being used by some -Stephen has been looking at this, he will send a patch to kick off 6) Multiple MAC address support and API behavior were discussed (Ferruh) -Pros and cons to each approach -Ferruh will propose solution for vote on email by techboard 7) Bugzilla usage (breakout from previous topic) -Is it being used enough? Are bugs getting the right level of attention etc? -Konstantin to add this as a topic for next techboard meeting
