netdev foundation TSC meeting notes - Jan 13th

Present: Andrew, Jakub, Johannes, Kuniyuki, Simon, Willem, Paolo

PHY Testing SoW Update
- Approved by board; processing contract in conjunction with LF

Lab update
- 3 machines in production (control, build, virt/ksft)
- Have capacity to host Wireless NIPA
- HW testing - 1 of 2 stage 2 machines received, other is on back order
- ETA 2 weeks but keeps getting pushed out weekly
- 2 NICs per machine

Finance Estimates
- Estimating $200k+ EoY’26 balance
- Looking for ways to effectively use these funds
- Netconf funding was one avenue
- Patchwork extensions are still in the works

NIPA maintenance help
- Either a separate SoW for significant chunks of work or time commitment
- Prefer time commitment due to lower management overhead
- 1 day/week with possibility to extend periodically to more as task pile up
- need upper bound for budgeting

AI Review Discussion
- Delay has been implemented to discourage reposting too quickly
- Tool is being used to limited but good effect by some maintainers and developers

Hi Jakub,

I wonder if it's the reason why the link below seems invalid?

https://netdev.bots.linux.dev/netconf/2024/index.html

Thanks,
Jason

Fixed now, thanks!