Minutes from the weekly DPDK Release Status Meeting. The DPDK Release Status Meeting is intended for DPDK Committers to discuss the status of the master tree and sub-trees, and for project managers to track progress or milestone dates.
The meeting occurs on Thursdays at 8:30 UTC. If you wish to attend just send me and email and I will send you the invite. Minutes 31 May 2018 Agenda: * DPDK 18.05 release. * Retrospective on 18.05. * Testing of stable releases. Participants: * Intel * Cavium * Mellanox * NXP * 6Wind * RedHat DPDK 18.05 release. * DPDK 18.08 "The Venky Release" is out. \o/ * Thanks to all the maintainers and contributors. * See the release notes for the full stats: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/announce/2018-May/000204.html Retrospective on 18.05. * What went well. * Largest DPDK release ever. * Lots of contributors from all the main companies involved in networking. * Collaboration on major features between companies in the community. * What didn't go so well. * The release was very late and required a lot of release candidates. * RC1 was late and low quality. * Many major defects found in RC testing. * Some reviews were slow or late. * What can we do differently next time. * Should we change the number of releases per year from 4 to 3 or 2? * Merge earlier from subtrees: every 7-10 days. * Push patches earlier. * Review patches more critically. Does every feature/patch need to go in. * Use unit tests more * Make them a requirement for any sizeable code. * Make them easier to write/use/run. * Add a make/meson target for generating coverage results from units tests. Any volunteers? * Hold more strictly to the release milestone dates. Testing of stable releases. * Luca Boccassi asked about testing of the stable release. * All major contributing companies should confirm test results on the stable releases. * Luca will send an email to the list about it: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-May/103249.html
