DPDK Tech Board meeting minutes 01-April-2026

[Hemant Agrawal]

Members Attending
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Aaron Conole
Bruce Richardson
Hemant Agrawal
Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
Kevin Traynor
Konstantin Ananyev
Morten Brørup
Stephen Hemminger
Thomas Monjalon

NOTE
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The Technical Board meetings take place every second Wednesday at 3 pm UTC.
Meetings are public, and DPDK community members are welcome to attend.
Agenda and previous minutes:
http://core.dpdk.org/techboard/minutes
The next meeting will follow the regular schedule.

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1. Summit and Governance Updates
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	- Nathan provided an update on the DPDK Summit in Stockholm.
	- ~52 in‑person registrations so far, expecting in 70–80 range. Speaker agenda has been finalized.
	- separate Tech Board–only meeting will be replaced by a joint Tech Board / Governing Board meeting

2. Personnel and Maintenance Updates
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	- Patrick Robb announced his role transition away from UNH.
	- Lincoln Lavoie will take on lab maintainer responsibilities in the medium term.
	- Patrick expressed interest in continuing as a DTS maintainer in a personal capacity. 
	Action: Patrick to submit a maintainers file update.

3. Release Status
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	- DPDK 26.03 was released successfully with no outstanding carry‑over items.
	- The 26.07 development cycle is starting; maintainers noted deferred patch backlogs that will now be addressed.

4. AI‑Assisted Code Review
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	- The board discussed the recently enabled AI code reviews in CI:
	- Main cost drivers are review frequency and repeated submissions rather than patch size alone.
	- Stephen to explore extracting token metrics from the review tooling.
	- Workflow discussions covered: Series‑level vs per‑patch AI reviews.