[dpdk-dev] Technical Steering Committee (TSC)

[Thomas Monjalon]

2015-05-19 11:34, Neil Horman:
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 07:43:14AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > Composition of the TSC should reflect contributions to the project, but be
> > > balanced so that no single party has an undue influence. It should also be
> > > kept to a manageable size(maybe 7?).
> > >
> > > The TSC should elect its own chair, who would have the deciding vote in
> > > the event that the TSC was deadlocked. Once in place, the TSC should
> > > approve any new members.
> > >
> > > Specific details on membership can be discussed and agreed later, if we
> > > agree on the creation of a TSC.
> > 
> > TSC should be limited to those individuals and companies that have
> > contributed in a non-trivial way to the DPDK distributed code base.
> > It should not be a users group, or place for network vendors who take but
> > never give back.
> > 
> +1
> 
> It should also endavour to only act as a fallback body for any issues commonly
> handled by the development communtiy (patch acceptance/review, etc)

I agree that it should be a fallback.
And I'm wondering how useful it would be: have we ever known such discussion or
conflict without finding a solution or a consensus?
By the way, is there a TSC in Linux netdev?