Technical board meeting minutes - 2025/10/29 Attendees: ======== Hemant Agrawal (Chair) Maxime Coquelin Thomas Monjalon Stephen Hemminger Bruce Richardson Aaron Conole Konstantin Ananyev Morten Brørup Jerin Jacob Kevin Traynor
Topics: ====== *The meeting focused on planning the upcoming Tech Board Governing Board joint meeting, including discussions about the Future Roadmap, AI updates, and DPDK 2026 summit logistics in Stockholm. *QStats Removal Discussion and Timeline: Bruce discussed the challenges of removing QStats from XStats, explaining that while the public API has been updated, the internal API still requires QStats due to over 30 drivers relying on the automatic conversion feature. The team debated whether to remove the flag immediately, potentially breaking drivers, or give more time for updates, with Thomas advocating for an earlier removal to allow more time for fixes. They agreed to send a deprecation notice to driver maintainers. *Test Suite Voting and Improvements: The team discussed voting on agenda items and Patrick emphasized the need to complete voting by November 12th to allow time for preparing a statement of work for the Governing Board by November 21st. Thomas suggested adding a new test target inspired by Gregory Edelson's proof of concept from NVIDIA, which aims to simplify test suite code. Patrick agreed to include this suggestion and noted that while the current test suite writing experience is streamlined, there's room for further improvements to make it easier for users. *DTS Testing for New Features: The team discussed making DTS test writing mandatory for new features, with Thomas proposing to start discussions by submitting a patch updating the contribution guidelines. Patrick explained that while CI automation is already set up for DTS testing in the community lab, they need to address how to run tests for new features and improve documentation. The team agreed to focus initially on functional tests rather than performance tests, with Morten raising a security concern about potential abuse of CI resources which Patrick will discuss with his boss. *Thomas mentioned that RC2 needs to be closed by the end of next week to meet the goal of having a release by mid-November. *Kevin noted he would send an email regarding LTS volunteers.
