Technical board meeting minutes for June 10th 2026

[Maxime Coquelin]

Attendees:
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Maxime Coquelin (Chair)
Thomas Monjalon
Bruce Richardson
Stephen Hemminger
Konstantin Ananyev
Aaron Conole
Jerin Jacob
Hemant Agrawal
Morten Brørup

Topics:
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* Security reports (Thomas)
 - Discussion on the CVE filing process using Red Hat as CNA.
 - Maxime will file CVEs for vhost-related vulnerabilities.
 - Need to identify who handles CVEs for other components (e.g., crypto).
 - 10 security reports on Marvell drivers; 5-6 already fixed as bugs.
   * Jerin to follow up with Akhil to reply to reporters.
   * Discussion on distinguishing bugs vs. security vulnerabilities.
 - AI-generated security reports are becoming common.
   * Aaron suggested treating AI-detected issues as public since
anyone can run AI tools.
   * Stephen noted duplicate reports for already-fixed issues.
 - Vote: Create a Slack channel for security coordination.
   * Members: Techboard members, release maintainers, and component
maintainers as needed.
   * Vote passed.
   * Next Step: Thomas will create the Slack channel.

* Loongarch Lab (Thomas)
 - Lab was producing systematic failures and erratic results.
 - Thomas disabled access to test-report mailing list (reports now in
moderation queue).
 - Next Step: Aaron will raise the issue at the DPDK CI meeting to
coordinate with Loongson.

* New PTP example (Thomas)
 - Thomas merged a PTP relay example (ptp_tap_relay_software) without
prior Techboard approval.
 - Concern about naming inconsistency with existing PTP client example.
 - Stephen will review the example and consider renaming for consistency.

* Release update (Thomas)
 - BPF patches from Marat Khalili have compilation failures when
applying patch-by-patch.
   * Marat will fix the bisect issue.
 - Ring library patches from Stephen also have compilation failures;
Thomas will send details.
 - Power library patches still to be reviewed for RC1.