Meeting Minutes, March 04, 2026

[Aaron Conole]

* TB Attendees
** Aaron Conole
** Thomas Monjalon
** Stephen Hemminger
** Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
** Bruce Richardson
** Kevin Traynor
** Maxime Coquelin

Agenda

* regexdev
** The discussion concluded that using a software solution is more
   efficient than using hardware, because hardware is quite limited for
   this work and CPUs are now outperforming dedicated hardware.
** Question about dropping support
*** We discussed what happens with vendors, noting that vendors are not
    currently providing support.
*** We considered the appropriate timing to drop support, questioning
    whether September would be an acceptable date.
*** The decision to drop support is reversible if needed.
** It was decided that a deprecation notice must be sent out, well
   publicized via mailing lists, release notes, and other channels.
*** Thomas will ask Ori to send out the deprecation materials.

* gpudev
** Maintenance appears to be lagging and requires attention, which
   includes adding examples.
** The current recommendation is to leave everything unchanged for the
   time being.

* Conference Update(s)
** The Call for Papers (CFP) review is scheduled for the 10th of March
   at 11am EST.
*** The submissions received thus far look good.
** Nathan gave timing and logistics updates for the tech board and gov
   board discussions.
** We requested a spreadsheet containing the abstracts and scores.

* Project Updates
** Nathan will be on leave; the interim contact is Yarille Ortiz
   (yortiz at linuxfoundation.org).
** Slack Pro
*** Feature: The archives are searchable.

* Bugzilla triage
** Stephen is writing Python scripts to gather information.
** Thomas has begun work on a dashboard (https://issues.dpdk.org) that
   ties together CI, Bugzilla, minutes, and development.
** We plan to discuss this with the government board and tech board.
** Features like:
*** A "wishlist" filtering option.
*** A to-do list.
*** The possibility of adding milestones to Bugzilla and filtering them here.
*** The use of an API key to assign bugs to maintainers.
** Considerations for the next meeting
*** Workflow for wishes.
*** Workflow for beginner tasks.

* AI Review status
** Current items:
*** Checkpatch should not serve as a gating step because it often
    generates false positives.
*** Build failures should remain a gating step.
** AGENTS.md
*** The file still contains a large number of tokens, but we are working
    on trimming it down.
*** Stephen is identifying more targeted prompt adjustments.
** UNH needs a final gating policy and a process for submission.

* Followups (things like checkpatch, maintainer list, etc.)
** Thomas scrubbed the maintainers list for inactive individuals.