Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2024-November-12 Members Attending ***************** - Hemant - Wathsala - Kevin - Bruce - Thomas - Morten - Stephen - Konstantin - Shani - Jerin (Chair) NOTE: The technical board meetings 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 2024- Nov - 26th @3pm UTC, and will be chaired by Honnappa # LTS Maintainer Update - Xiaoming resigned as LTS maintainer for DPDK 23.11. - A call for volunteers was posted on the tech board mailing list. - Shani Peretz volunteered and was unanimously approved as the new LTS maintainer for 23.11. - Kevin and Luca will support Shani during the onboarding process. # Driver Maintenance Discussion A general discussion was held regarding the current state of maintenance for the BNXT driver and how the community can better support long-term sustainability across all drivers. - Community Discussion * Emphasis on maintaining a consistent quality baseline across all DPDK drivers. * Importance of clear maintainer expectations and sufficient resources. * Acknowledgement that hardware diversity limits full validation by subsystem maintainers. * Alignment between vendors and community contributors viewed as essential for driver reliability. * All core components (drivers and libraries) should follow similar quality and maintenance guidelines. - Discussion was collaborative and focused on improving processes, not restricting or removing drivers. - Potential improvements considered: * Adding support-level tags in the maintainers file to increase clarity on driver support status for users. * Updating documentation to better communicate expectations for new or evolving drivers. # Follow-up / Action Items - Await update from Ajit regarding the new Broadcom maintainer. - Await Broadcom's plan for ongoing BNXT branch maintenance. - Discuss adding support-level flags to the maintainers file. - Consider updates to documentation or policy for driver quality expectations.
