[dpdk-dev] Architecture Board Proposal

Dave Neary dneary at redhat.com
Fri Oct 30 16:17:17 CET 2015



On 10/30/2015 09:25 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2015-10-30 13:23, O'Driscoll, Tim:
>> From: Dave Neary
>>> There was a general agreement in Dublin that DPDK related projects and
>>> applications could live in dpdk.org, but we didn't really touch on the
>>> process or requirements for adding new projects. I think it's
>>> appropriate for the architecture board to own those too.
>>
>> That makes sense. So maybe what we're converging on is the following:
>> - The scope of the Architecture Board covers all projects hosted on dpdk.org.
>> - The Architecture Board will approve new projects to be hosted on dpdk.org.
>> - If it's not clear whether a new piece of functionality resides within one of the existing projects on dpdk.org or needs a new project of its own, the Architecture Board will decide.
>>
>> Is that in line with your thoughts on this?
> 
> Do we need a board to define the scope of this board? ;)

:-)

> The only reason I see to reject a project, would be to consider that the
> project is not related to DPDK enough. I think it will be an obvious decision.
> So it shouldn't be a high responsibility nor a high workload to add to this
> board.
> But clearly, the hosted projects (except DPDK itself) should not be impacted
> by the DPDK board.

You have a good point - and in the spirit of "the board exists only to
make decisions that aren't converging in the community", maybe we don't
need more.

Dave.


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