Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2022-07-13

[Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>]

Members Attending: 6
* Aaron Conole (chair)
* Hement Agarwal
* Maxime Coquelin
* Nathan Southern
* Stephen Hemminger
* Thomas Monjalon

NOTE: The Technical Board meetings take place every second Wednesday on https://meet.jit.si/DPDK 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

* DPDK Userspace Event updates
** CfP submissions are coming in.  More expected within the next week.
** Remote presenters can be accommodated (but not preferred, although
   remote speakers doing pre-recorded is preferred in that case)
** Remote attendance is an option - access to all sessions isn't clear
   at the moment.  First day stuff (hackathon, TB meetings, etc. aren't
   recorded) TBD, but likely will not be accessible to remote attendees.
** Some complimentary passes have been approved for qualified individuals
** Sponsorship packages were approved
** Some travel / transportation recommendataions are forthcoming to the
   website

* LF server backup
** Nathan submitted request
** Last message from Johnson @ gowdy.net is that the ticket
   is in process
** Are any additional ticket requests? - Seems no
** No ETA for completion
** Thomas says when it should be available we can do some testing and
   see if we missed anything.

* Tech writer update
** Discussion with a candidate between Thomas, Bruce, and Nathan
** Candidate represents a group, which was a surprise
** Asked for a proposal, but the proposal did not have a breakdown, just
   a flat payment for 3 months.
** Group wants hourly information, and an "out" in case the work isn't
   sufficient.
** Thomas concern is that the plan is to work "full time" but we are
   probably not able to absorb full time work.  Better if they would work
   something like 1 wk/month because that is probably closer to the workload
   we estimate.
** Maybe if they are able to split the work in small tasks we can work out a
   schedule, but the current proposal doesn't have that.
** Need an audit of work to do to generate tasks list.
** Do we pay for that?  Discussion
*** Probably do, this is work and we are asking them to do it.
*** Need to have a bigger discussion about how to come up with such an estimate,
    etc.
*** Maybe other projects have some data that we can use for coming up with an
    estimate?
*** Q: Has LF paid for this work before?  If so, what is the rate, etc.?

-- Discussing backlog --

* Security process
** Nothing new

* UNH CI / Testing
** Presented the gov board status
** UNH Git caching issue
*** Shallow clone should be sufficient for git pulls at UNH
*** Two solutions - git cache being out of sync is a rare case anyway
*** Maybe with self-retest this isn't an issue
** Question is UNH still on their schedule?
** There is a question about using UNH with OPI, doing some kind of global API
   on top of DPDK.  There is a need for a lab, and the suggestion is UNH.
** Thomas is monitoring the discussion
** Not sure about whether the teams would/could overlap

* Doc maintenance
** Need to see what will happen with tech writer candidate

* Bugzilla status
** Waiting on responses
** BZ doesn't seem overwhelmed, but needs maintenance