Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2023-December-13 Members Attending ----------------- -Aaron -Hemant -Jerin (Chair) -Kevin -Konstantin -Maxime -Morten -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 2024- January -10 @3pm UTC, and will be chaired by Honnappa 1) 5G Webinar Summary - The scheduled time for the event coincided with the OVS conference, Techboard requested Linux Foundation to cross-reference other open-source conferences listed at https://lwn.net/Calendar/ to prevent scheduling conflicts in the future. - The Techboard expressed eagerness to organize more webinars and encouraged volunteers to participate as speakers. Notably, the recent event boasted an impressive attendance of over 100 participants. - Techboard is exploring the possibility of hosting a virtual hackathon to collaboratively address technical challenges. 2) Process for Qualification Criteria for External Library TB continued to discuss the process for qualification criteria for external library, Initiated from https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20230928054036.645183-1-jer...@marvell.com/ # Revised policy description based on TB meetings and mailing list discussions a) Documentation: - Must have adequate documentation for the steps to build it. - Must have clear license documentation on distribution and usage aspects of external library. b) Free Availability: - The library must be freely available to build in either source or binary form. - It shall be downloadable from a direct link. There shall not be any requirement to explicitly login or sign a user agreement. c) Usage License: - Both permissive (e.g., BSD-3 or Apache) and non-permissive (e.g., GPLv3) licenses are acceptable. - In the case of a permissive license, automatic inclusion in the build process is assumed. For non-permissive licenses, an additional build config option is required. d) Distributions License: - No specific constraints beyond documentation. e) Compiler Compatibility: - The library must be able to compile with a DPDK supported compiler for the given execution environment. For example, For Linux, the library must be able to compile with GCC and/or clang. - Library may be limited to a specific OS. f) Meson Build Integration: - Libraries must offer a standard method like pkg-config for seamless integration with DPDK's build environment. g) Code Readability: - Optional dependencies should use stubs to minimize ifdef clutter, promoting improved code readability. 3) The meeting also addressed the timeframe for existing libraries to align with the new policy, with a general consensus to provide a minimum of 6 months. 4) Security Maintainers Updates - Thomas expressed his desire to retire from security maintainers responsibilities. - Aaron and Maxime volunteered to be part of security maintainer roles. - Cheng Jian, having left Intel, is no longer active in the security team. - Stephen will consult with Luca to gauge his interest in joining as one of the security maintainers.
