From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 17:45:05 +0200 Message-ID: <6422303.qpQUJvDa9r@xps13> References: <26FA93C7ED1EAA44AB77D62FBE1D27BA54D43080@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com> <20150519153434.GA29078@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com (mail-wg0-f49.google.com [74.125.82.49]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AE4A9A8F for ; Tue, 19 May 2015 17:45:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: by wgfl8 with SMTP id l8so22923454wgf.2 for ; Tue, 19 May 2015 08:45:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150519153434.GA29078@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 2015-05-19 11:34, Neil Horman: > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 07:43:14AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > Composition of the TSC should reflect contributions to the project, but be > > > balanced so that no single party has an undue influence. It should also be > > > kept to a manageable size(maybe 7?). > > > > > > The TSC should elect its own chair, who would have the deciding vote in > > > the event that the TSC was deadlocked. Once in place, the TSC should > > > approve any new members. > > > > > > Specific details on membership can be discussed and agreed later, if we > > > agree on the creation of a TSC. > > > > TSC should be limited to those individuals and companies that have > > contributed in a non-trivial way to the DPDK distributed code base. > > It should not be a users group, or place for network vendors who take but > > never give back. > > > +1 > > It should also endavour to only act as a fallback body for any issues commonly > handled by the development communtiy (patch acceptance/review, etc) I agree that it should be a fallback. And I'm wondering how useful it would be: have we ever known such discussion or conflict without finding a solution or a consensus? By the way, is there a TSC in Linux netdev?