Minutes of Technical Board meeting 24-January-2024

[Kevin Traynor]

Members Attending
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Aaron Conole
Bruce Richardson
Hemant Agrawal
Honappa Nagarahalli
Jerin Jacob
Kevin Traynor (Chair)
Konstantin Ananyev
Maxime Coquelin
Morten Brorup
Stephen Hemminger
Thomas Monjalon

NOTE: The technical board meetings are on every second Wednesday at 3 pm
UTC.
Meetings are public, and DPDK community members are welcome to attend.
Agenda and minutes can be found at http://core.dpdk.org/techboard/minutes

Next meeting will be on Wednesday 2024-Feb-07 @ 3pm UTC, and will
be chaired by Konstantin.

Agenda Items
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Arg parsing (Bruce)
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- 3 series proposed as per last TB minutes
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/DBAPR08MB581405E7CF23732B8941B10C98732@DBAPR08MB5814.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com
- Discussion about these series and if merging it contradicts with
longer term function based initialization
- There is still a need to handle arguments for the foreseeable future
- Consensus for adding helpers to argparse lib that eal will depend on
- Drivers may use an extension of argparse library in time
- Call for patch reviews

3 year LTS maintenance? [Kevin]
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- Current documented policy is for 2 years
- 19.11/20.11 LTS were maintained for 3 year and it went smoothly
- Proposal is to formally document 3 year LTS maintenance
- http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20240117162419.223820-1-ktraynor@redhat.com
- Needs ack from LTS maintainers and companies involved in validation


Application logging [Thomas]
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- Should applications use rte_logs or printf ?
- rte_log is useful because it can be enabled/disabled
- interactive items like testpmd stats are better suited to printf
- driver specific directories should use rte_log

gov/tech board meeting items [All]
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- Thomas is starting investigation about DPDK with AI
- Discussed possibility of cloud companies publishing DPDK capability
and performance reports on dpdk website
- Some may prefer to publish on their own website
- If anyone has contacts or can help coordinate please reach out to Nathan