Members Attending ================= 9/11 - Aaron - Bruce - Hemant - Jerin - Kevin - Maxime - Olivier (chair) - Stephen - Thomas
NOTE: The technical board meetings are on every second Wednesday at https://meet.jit.si/DPDK at 3 pm UTC. Meetings are public, and DPDK community members are welcome to attend. NOTE: Next meeting will be on Wednesday 2021-June-15 @3pm UTC, and will be chaired by Stephen. Agenda items ============ 1) Update on the tech writer hire --------------------------------- We are in the process of recruiting a tech writer to enhance DPDK documentation. The work group is composed of Nathan, Bruce, Stephen, Thomas. - 5 reasonnable candidates among 17 applicants - the list of tasks is defined, it has been estimated to ~250h - the work should be spread over ~6 months to give enough time to the community for feedback - after some time, if the community is satisfied, the writer can suggest new enhancements, reworks, or estimation updates - in case the community is not satisfied, the contract could end before the end of the tasks 2) Discussions about alternatives to bug bounty to find bugs ------------------------------------------------------------ These three ideas were mentionned: - static analysis tools - fuzz testing - adding more tests to CI Projects from Google Project Zero were also mentionned: https://github.com/orgs/googleprojectzero/repositories 3) Reminder about API/ABI stability ----------------------------------- Recently, the vector keyword was removed from rte_altivec.h: http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=64fcadeac0f Since it is a minor (accepted) API breakage, it is the opportunity to do a reminder about the ABI/API process: - API breakages are announced and can happen in minor versions - ABI breakages are announced and can only happen in LTS releases 4) Removal of KNI ----------------- There is no more maintainer for KNI. A progressive removal proposal was made: - add a message at runtime and/or compilation to announce deprecation - remove KNI example after 22.11 - remove lib + kmod from main repo for 23.11 Bruce recently submitted a doc patchset to explain how to replace it by virtio-user: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=23218 The status of pending patches is not obvious. Until now, it was not announced that new patches won't be integrated. Thomas will open the discussion.
