From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hemant Agrawal Subject: Minutes of tech-board meeting 2017-04-27 Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 05:57:18 +0000 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: "dev@dpdk.org" , "techboard@dpdk.org" Return-path: Content-Language: en-US List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Hi all, Here is the meeting notes for the last DPDK technical board meeting held on= 2017-04-27. Please note that meetings are open to all to attend. Any topics to be refer= red to the tech board for discussion at that meeting should be emailed to t= echboard@dpdk.org. Normally, it's a bi-weekly meeting. Member attendees: - Bruce Richardson - Hemant Agrawal - Jan Blunck - Jerin Jacob - Olivier Matz - Stephen Hemminger - Thomas Monjalon - Yuanhan Liu 1.Scope of cmdline and cfgfile libraries in DPDK ------------------------------------------------- - DPDK will continue to keep one version of cli and cfg libs in dpdk. They = can be replaced with a better version in future.=20 - w.r.t Keith's CLI lib proposal. It should replace the existing CLI lib. I= f any api changes are required, the api deprecation process should be follo= wed.=20 - It is acknowledged that cli and cfg libs can also be used outside dpdk. T= hey can be better hosted on a different git repository. However, DPDK needs= a better external dep system to do this.=20 - The DPDK build system should be improved to work better with external dep= endencies. Thomas and Bruce will send a RFC on build system reqs for handli= ng external deps. =20 2. DPDK Bug Tracker ----------------- DPDK is missing a bug tracker or to-do item list. It will be discussed in n= ext meeting. 3. Next Meeting --------------- As per alphabetical order, Jan Blunck will chair next meeting. He will poll= for the date and time of next meeting. Regards, Hemant