DPDK Tech Board meeting minutes 19-February-2025

[Morten Brørup]

Members Attending
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Aaron Conole
Bruce Richardson
Hemant Agrawal
Kevin Traynor
Maxime Coquelin
Morten Brørup (chair)
Stephen Hemminger
Thomas Monjalon

NOTE
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The technical board meetings are on every second Wednesday at 3 pm UTC.
Meetings are public. DPDK community members are welcome to attend on Zoom:
https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/96459488340?
password=d808f1f6-0a28-4165-929e-5a5bcae7efeb
Agenda: https://annuel.framapad.org/p/r.0c3cc4d1e011214183872a98f6b5c7db
Minutes of previous meetings: http://core.dpdk.org/techboard/minutes

Next meeting will be on: Wednesday 05-March-2025 at 3pm UTC,
and will be chaired by: Thomas.

Agenda Items
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1. Updates from the Governing Board
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Nathan informed about the changes in the DPDK Governing Board.
Refer to the Governing Board minutes for details:
https://www.dpdk.org/dpdk-governing-board-minutes-summary-january-23-2025-2/

2. Prague 2025 summit
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CFP submission numbers are very low.
It is common that proposals are submitted last minute, so this is not of great concern.
Tech Board members were reminded to circulate the submission link:
https://sessionize.com/dpdk-summit-2025
The timing of the Prague tech board meeting was discussed. It was agreed to do lunch, not dinner.

3. Project membership updates
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Nathan informed about DPDK project membership renewals and new recruitment.
It is stable and making progress, which clearly shows that the project has strong and continued support.

4. Tech writer
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Nathan informed about the progress of the tech writer, Nandini Persad.
With the guidance of some tech board members, she has been making good progress, and her contract has been renewed. The tech board is hoping to also pull in some maintainers for guidance.

5. Linux uAPI headers in DPDK
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The Governing Board Representative, currently Morten, informed that the Governing Board has not yet discussed or decided on this.
The presentation, prepared by Maxime, has already been updated and provided, and Nathan will put it on the coming Gov Board meeting agenda.

6. Patch submission policy
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Aaron has sent a draft of a patch submission policy to the Tech Board for initial review.
The Tech Board decided that this could be discussed in public, i.e. on the public mailing list.

7. Coding challenge
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Running the coding challenge requires more resources than are currently available.
However, a lot of good input was collected while discussing the individual challenges, and this should be captured somewhere.


Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards,
-Morten Brørup