The next techboard meeting will take place on 2017-12-20 i.e. this Wednesday, at 3pm UTC.
Meeting place: IRC #dpdk-board Please send on any items requiring techboard attention. Regards, /Hemant > -----Original Message----- > From: techboard [mailto:techboard-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of > Richardson, Bruce > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 10:57 PM > To: techbo...@dpdk.org > Cc: dev@dpdk.org > Subject: [dpdk-techboard] Minutes of technical board meeting 2017-12-06 > > Attendees: > Bruce, Hemant, Jerin, Konstantin, Olivier, Thomas, Yuanhan > > Absent: > Stephen, Jan > > Due to discontinued involvement in DPDK, Jan has now resigned from the > technical board. > The tech board wishes to thank him for his contributions to DPDK and tech- > board over the last few years and wish him well in his other endeavours. > The topic of a possible replacement for Jan on the tech-board will be > discussed at the next meeting. > > Topic: Management of old patches in patchwork > * Unanimous agreement that old patches should be rejected in patchwork > after a reasonable period, set initially at 3 releases (9 months). > * After a release, all patches dated older than 3 releases previously, > e.g. after 17.11, any patches submitted before the release of 17.02, > will be marked as rejected and a mail reply sent to the appropriate > mailing list thread informing people of the same. > * To have patches reconsidered for future inclusion, a new version of > the patches should be submitted to the mailing list. > > * Bruce to update the documentation with this new policy. > * Thomas to request support from patchwork and DPDK community to > automate/script the implementation of this policy. > > Topic: Licensing > * No major updates. Discussion in progress on a number of items that > need relicensing or exceptions. > > Topic: Technical Board Voting > * For charter changes the governing board requires a 2/3 majority. The > technical board has no such special case for charter or policy > changes. > * Following brief discussion, most seemed happy with the current > situation where a simple majority suffices for such decisions. > > Next Meeting: > * 2017-12-20 @ 3pm UTC > * Hemant to chair discussion
