[dpdk-dev] DPDK techboard minutes of April 8

[Ferruh Yigit]

Meeting notes for the DPDK technical board meeting held on 2020-04-08

Attendees:
	- Bruce Richardson
	- Ferruh Yigit (Chair)
	- Hemant Agrawal
	- Honnappa Nagarahalli
	- Jerin Jacob
	- Kevin Traynor
	- Konstantin Ananyev
	- Maxime Coquelin
	- Olivier Matz
	- Stephen Hemminger
	- Thomas Monjalon


1) Make build system deprecation

- Make build support will be "removed" on the 20.11 release.

- A "warning" will be put in to make build on the 20.05 (this) release.

- A build abort will be put in to make build on the 20.08 release, which can be
bypassed with an environment variable.

- The current owner of the deprecation process is Bruce.


2) rte_atomic deprecation

- GCC 4.8.5 & Clang 3.4.2 compilers are part of CentOS7 & RHEL7 and these
distros will keep supported, which means those old compilers will be supported.

- Wrappers to let the use of old distros will be discussed offline via email.


3) 'app/test-flow-perf' acceptance will be voted in next meeting.


4) The next meeting will be on April 22 and Honnappa will chair it.


Thanks,
ferruh