[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-techboard] Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2021-04-21

[Ananyev, Konstantin]

Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2021-04-21

Members Attending
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-Aaron
-Bruce
-Ferruh
-Hemant
-Honnappa
-Jerin
-Kevin
-Konstantin (chair)
-Maxime
-Olivier
-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 2021-04-21 @3pm UTC, and will be
chaired by Kevin.

1) eventdev DLB2 -> DLB driver rename
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* it could be considered as API/ABI breakage, so should happen at LTS release timeframe (21.11) 
* Renaming it back to DLB is possible, but might create a confusion,
   when 20.11 LTS and 21.11 LTS will have two different drivers with the same name (dlb).
* Proposal to consider to use new name (idlb) for renaming in 21.11.  

2) build: use platform option 'generic' as default one
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* Current default option is 'native'.
* To go ahead with such noticeable change need to collect feedback from the community first.
* Techboard preference is to keep 'native' as a default choice.

3) Tech Board Membership Policy
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* Agreed that it needs to be clearly defined and better documented.
* Start with codifying current status (AR to Hemant).
* Review existing policies for other open-source projects and come-up
   with some suitable proposal for DPDK (AR to Stephen and other members).

4) Linux Foundation interaction
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Discussion on current situation and what can be improved in future.

5) DPDK Userspace 2021
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Discussed initial thoughts about DPDK Userspace 2021 event.
Techboard opinion: 
In current situation it seems premature to consider F2F event for 2021.
Probably safer to plan it as virtual for 2021 and consider F2F one for 2022.

6) Other opens
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* More reviews for 21.05 are welcome (as usual)
* examples/l3fwd - looking for maintainer.