DPDK official roadmap

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Wed Jan 11 15:24:01 CET 2023


11/01/2023 11:08, Morten Brørup:
> Thomas, Nathan,
> 
> The DPDK roadmap web page [1] is essentially two lists of specific features probably coming in the short term, or in some unknown future.
> 
> [1] https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/
> 
> We might want to publish the list of high level, long term ambitions here, as they are decided by the Tech Board. This would provide valuable information for DPDK application developers (if not following the mailing list).
> 
> I'm thinking of topics such as:
> * DTS in the main repository,
> * C99 and C11 support (preferably with release dates/versions), and
> * Slimming the EAL (if this becomes an official goal of the project).

I agree, we should better publish the intents in the roadmap page.
For driver-specific changes, it goes through the roadmap easily already.
For global technical changes, it may require a techboard vote first.
I would like to add a section for easy work that newcomers could pick.





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