Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2025-June-11

[Kevin Traynor]

Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2025-June-11

Members Attending
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-Aaron
-Bruce
-Jerin
-Kevin
-Morten
-Stephen
-Thomas

NOTE: The technical board meetings every second Wednesday at
https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/96459488340?password=d808f1f6-0a28-4165-929e-5a5bcae7efeb
at 3 pm UTC.
Meetings are public, and DPDK community members are welcome to attend.
NOTE: Next meeting will be on Wednesday 2025- June - 25th @3pm UTC, and
will be chaired by Maxime.

1) MACB Driver Enablement (Stephen)
- Better to take pmd when the kmod is approved
- Do we still want to allow kernel modules ? perhaps if it is strictly
required for a vendor

2) AI meeting notes (Aaron)
- AI companion will be used to summarize techboard meetings
- This will be used to help minute taker compose summary to send out
- AI: Kevin contact meeting owner (Nathan) about this

3) github AI for code reviews (Aaron/Jerin)
- sourcery-ai may be able to help with code reviews
- It will require new branches being created with PRs on github
- Preference not to do that in existing dpdk github repo
- AI: Jerin will propose a workflow

4) ethdev maintainer (Thomas)
- There is need for more help with ethdev
- Other areas also require maintainers
- An email will be sent on announce to advertise
- AI: Kevin to draft email for review

5) ABI stability (Previous meeting)
- Proposal to only guarantee ABI stability on LTS minor releases
- Will need to ensure that ABI breaks are still flagged during reviews
- This will need to be discussed more. Topic for US summit.

6) US summit (Stephen)
- AI: Kevin request Nathan to give an update at next techboard