Hi, Here are the meeting notes of the DPDK technical board meeting held on 2019-04-10.
Attendees: - Bruce Richardson - Ferruh Yigit - Hemant Agrawal - Jerin Jacob - Konstantin Ananyev - Olivier Matz - Stephen Hemminger - Thomas Monjalon 1) DPDK development process and tools survey ============================================ Reference: https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-March/126114.html The objective of the survey is to detect problems (if any) in our current process. - The survey is now closed. - Unfortunately the number of received responses is low compared to the number of active DPDK developers. - The answers and feedback will be gathered and summarized by mail. - There will be a Q&A session on this topic at next Europe DPDK summit. 2) DPDK API Stability discussion ================================ Reference: https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-April/128969.html - Following the discussion on the ML, there is a consensus that API/ABI stability is a direction where the DPDK project should head for. - Adding automated tools to check API/ABI stability is a good first step. Here is a list of ABI checker tools: - ABI Laboratory: https://abi-laboratory.pro/index.php?view=timeline&l=dpdk - https://sourceware.org/libabigail - https://lvc.github.io/abi-compliance-checker - The current dpdk tool, validate-abi.sh, is based on abi-compliance-checker. - Patches like this one proposed by Stephen Hemminger should be generalized to other parts of DPDK (everything that is not rx/tx path): http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=4248 - An "ABI/API stability" item will be added to techboard recurring topics. - The documentation (guides/contributing/versioning, guides/contributing/design) and website (including roadmap) should be updated to highlight and explain the intent (Ray proposed himself). - No calendar/deadlines was decided, let's discuss it again at next techboard meeting. 3) SPDX licenses ================ There are still some old license headers in Intel driver base code, they will be replaced by new shared code drops.