[dpdk-web] [PATCH] decision making via technical board

Richardson, Bruce bruce.richardson at intel.com
Mon Feb 15 22:06:31 CET 2016



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 8:35 PM
> To: web at dpdk.org
> Cc: stephen at networkplumber.org; pmatilai at redhat.com; Ananyev, Konstantin
> <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com>; Richardson, Bruce
> <bruce.richardson at intel.com>; olivier.matz at 6wind.com;
> jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com
> Subject: [PATCH] decision making via technical board
> 
> Explains the decision making process for consensus exception.
> It has been discussed and decided by the technical board during its first
> meeting.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
> ---
>  dev.html | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/dev.html b/dev.html
> index a091efc..2851eb2 100644
> --- a/dev.html
> +++ b/dev.html
> @@ -44,8 +44,10 @@
>  	Coming patches are listed in <a href="/dev/patchwork">patchwork</a>.
>  	<p>Planned features are listed in the <a
> href="/dev/roadmap">roadmap</a>
>  	and integrated during a <a href="/dev/roadmap#cycle">cycle started
> by a merge window</a>.
> +
>  	<h3 id="licenses">Licenses</h3>
>  	<p>Main code is BSD licensed and Linux kernel related parts are
> naturally licensed under the GPL.
> +
>  	<h3 id="clone">Get source code</h3>
>  	<p>Read-only access:
>  	<pre>git clone git://dpdk.org/dpdk</pre> @@ -53,6 +55,7 @@
>  	<pre>git clone http://dpdk.org/git/dpdk</pre>
>  	<p>The source code can be <a href="/browse/dpdk/tree/">browsed
> online</a>.
>  	<p>Focus is on next version in git <em>HEAD</em>. There is no
> maintenance of previous versions.
> +
>  	<h3 id="send">Contribute by sending patches</h3>
>  	<p>Patches should be sent and reviewed via the <a
> href="/ml/archives/dev">mailing list</a>.
>  	Be sure <a href="/ml/listinfo/dev">to be registered</a>.
> @@ -104,12 +107,14 @@
>  	fixline = log -1 --abbrev=12 --format='Fixes: %h (\"%s\")'</pre>
>  	<p>The built-in documentation have more details about the
>  	<a href="/doc/guides/contributing/patches.html">contribution
> guidelines</a>.
> +
>  	<h3 id="review">Contribute by testing or reviewing patches</h3>
>  	<p>Patches are applied in the git repository when it becomes clear
> that
>  	they are well written and do the right things.<br>
>  	Test reports and reviews help a lot in the process.
>  	Such contributions are marked with flags
>  	<em>Tested-by</em>, <em>Reviewed-by</em> or <em>Acked-by</em>.
> +
>  	<h3 id="patchwork">Status of patches</h3>
>  	<p>Once sent to the mailing list, patches are automatically
> registered
>  	in <a href="/dev/patchwork">patchwork</a> with status
> <em>"New"</em>.
> @@ -124,4 +129,32 @@
>  	<p>Patchwork can also help to download patches individually or
> bundled.
>  	<p>Most of the patchwork actions can be done
>  	with a <a href="/dev/patchwork/help/pwclient/">pwclient</a> command
> line.
> +
> +	<h3 id="board">Technical board</h3>
> +	<p>The decision making process is primarily based on consensus.
> +	However in rare cases, the technical board can make a decision
> +	when consensus is not reached on the mailing list.
> +	<p>The scope of this body is limited to questions directly related
> to the
> +	following repositories:
> +	<ul>
> +		<li>dpdk.git
> +		<li>dpdk-next*.git
> +		<li>dpdk-web.git
> +	</ul>
> +	<p>After having tried to solve every concerns, a maintainer
> +	(listed in the <a href="/browse/dpdk/tree/MAINTAINERS">MAINTAINERS
> file</a>)
> +	or a board member (listed below) can request a board meeting as a
> last resort.
> +	Then the technical board will meet on IRC to issue a decision within
> 2 weeks.
> +	A quorum of 6 members is required.
> +	<p>The 7 members are:
> +	<ul>
> +		<li>Bruce Richardson
> +		<li>Jerin Jacob
> +		<li>Konstantin Ananyev
> +		<li>Olivier Matz
> +		<li>Panu Matilainen
> +		<li>Stephen Hemminger
> +		<li>Thomas Monjalon
> +	</ul>
> +
>  </section>
> --
> 2.7.0
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>



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