[dpdk-dev] Minutes of technical board meeting 2017-12-06
Richardson, Bruce
bruce.richardson at intel.com
Tue Dec 12 18:26:36 CET 2017
Attendees:
Bruce, Hemant, Jerin, Konstantin, Olivier, Thomas, Yuanhan
Absent:
Stephen, Jan
Due to discontinued involvement in DPDK, Jan has now resigned from the technical board.
The tech board wishes to thank him for his contributions to DPDK and tech-board over the last few years and wish him well in his other endeavours.
The topic of a possible replacement for Jan on the tech-board will be discussed at the next meeting.
Topic: Management of old patches in patchwork
* Unanimous agreement that old patches should be rejected in patchwork
after a reasonable period, set initially at 3 releases (9 months).
* After a release, all patches dated older than 3 releases previously,
e.g. after 17.11, any patches submitted before the release of 17.02,
will be marked as rejected and a mail reply sent to the appropriate
mailing list thread informing people of the same.
* To have patches reconsidered for future inclusion, a new version of
the patches should be submitted to the mailing list.
* Bruce to update the documentation with this new policy.
* Thomas to request support from patchwork and DPDK community to
automate/script the implementation of this policy.
Topic: Licensing
* No major updates. Discussion in progress on a number of items that
need relicensing or exceptions.
Topic: Technical Board Voting
* For charter changes the governing board requires a 2/3 majority. The
technical board has no such special case for charter or policy
changes.
* Following brief discussion, most seemed happy with the current
situation where a simple majority suffices for such decisions.
Next Meeting:
* 2017-12-20 @ 3pm UTC
* Hemant to chair discussion
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