From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Neary Subject: Re: Architecture Board Proposal Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 11:17:17 -0400 Message-ID: <563389FD.30407@redhat.com> References: <26FA93C7ED1EAA44AB77D62FBE1D27BA674488A2@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com> <56336C69.5000405@redhat.com> <26FA93C7ED1EAA44AB77D62FBE1D27BA67449C7B@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com> <5157985.jDBArynuku@xps13> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: Thomas Monjalon , "O'Driscoll, Tim" Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DE5A924E for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2015 16:17:19 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <5157985.jDBArynuku@xps13> 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" On 10/30/2015 09:25 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 2015-10-30 13:23, O'Driscoll, Tim: >> From: Dave Neary >>> There was a general agreement in Dublin that DPDK related projects and >>> applications could live in dpdk.org, but we didn't really touch on the >>> process or requirements for adding new projects. I think it's >>> appropriate for the architecture board to own those too. >> >> That makes sense. So maybe what we're converging on is the following: >> - The scope of the Architecture Board covers all projects hosted on dpdk.org. >> - The Architecture Board will approve new projects to be hosted on dpdk.org. >> - If it's not clear whether a new piece of functionality resides within one of the existing projects on dpdk.org or needs a new project of its own, the Architecture Board will decide. >> >> Is that in line with your thoughts on this? > > Do we need a board to define the scope of this board? ;) :-) > The only reason I see to reject a project, would be to consider that the > project is not related to DPDK enough. I think it will be an obvious decision. > So it shouldn't be a high responsibility nor a high workload to add to this > board. > But clearly, the hosted projects (except DPDK itself) should not be impacted > by the DPDK board. You have a good point - and in the spirit of "the board exists only to make decisions that aren't converging in the community", maybe we don't need more. Dave. -- Dave Neary - NFV/SDN Community Strategy Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Ph: +1-978-399-2182 / Cell: +1-978-799-3338