DPDK Release Status Meeting 06/07/2018 ======================================
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 6 June 2018 ------------------- Agenda: * New Patchwork v2. * Roadmaps. * Upcoming changes from Tech Board meeting. * Proposal deadline. * Backlog of old patches. * Proposal Deadline. * Memory rework. * Applying patches to master. * Subtrees. Stable * Testing from Intel ongoing. * Mellanox: 17.11 + 18.02. * RedHat: putting testing in place. Participants: * Intel * Mellanox * RedHat * Broadcom New Patchwork version. * Patchwork upgraded to V2.0.2 - Thanks Thomas, Mellanox and Stephen Finucane. * Now supports "Series" i.e., patchsets for new patches. * New client available that supports applying a full patch series: git-pw: http://patchwork.readthedocs.io/projects/git-pw/en/latest/ Roadmaps * All contributing companies are encourages to send updated roadmaps for 18.08 and later: http://dpdk.org/dev/roadmap * Intel, Mellanox and Broadcom committed to sending updates. Upcoming changes from Tech Board meeting. * Explicit time limits for reviews/commits. Acked patches will be committed within 2 weeks. This has already been agreed previously and documented: http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/contributing/patches.html#steps-to-getting-your-patch-merged There was a new recommendation that non-acked, non-commented files will be committed after 3 weeks if there are no objections/comments. * Weekly merge. Subtrees to be merged on Thursdays. Master on Friday. Backlog of old patches. * There is a backlog of old patches: http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/project/dpdk/list/?order=date Need help cleaning this updated Proposal Deadline * 8 June * Other dates: http://dpdk.org/dev/roadmap#dates Memory rework * Thomas reported that Mellanox are still seeing issues * Will interface with Anatoly * Will check with OvS Applying patches to master * Looking for patches to apply early. * HyperV patches will be applied. Subtrees * Net: Not many patches yet * Virtio: Quiet for now. * Crypto: Nothing merged yet. 62 patches in the backlog. Stable * Testing from Intel ongoing. * Mellanox: 17.11 + 18.02. * RedHat: putting testing in place.
