Minutes 4 October 2018
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Agenda:
* Dates
* Subtrees
* Bugzilla
Participants:
* Intel
* RedHat
* Mellanox
Release Dates
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* RC1 date *pushed a week*, it is now *12th October 2018*
* Delay is because of existing patch backlog.
Subtrees
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* main
* Still lots of patches/reviews to be done
* There is Anatoly's large patchset (external memory) to be merged
* Hotplug must be done in this release, Thomas will send more patches
* next-net
* 2 new PMDs merged Marvell MVNETA & NXP ENETC
* Aquantia Atlantic PMD may not go in this release, doesn't look ready
* AF_XDP PMD still an RFC, won't be in this release
* ~50 patches to merge, mainly rte_flow ones
* most rte_flow ones will be merged this week if there is no objection
* vendor trees
* next-net-intel: small set of fixes, can go in after rc1
* next-net-mlx: waiting it to be ready
* There is a process_private data field patch, it may go in since there will
be API break on ethdev already.
Thomas will send more patches to add Port Representor ID field.
* next-crypto
* Already pulled
* next-virtio
* 2 main features to get ready
* packed virtqueues & postcopy live-migration
* next-eventdev
* Already pulled
* Probably won't be any more major changes
* Merge caused an ICC build error, fix patch is out
* next-pipeline
* next-qos
* Pull request sent, there is a few more patches for the tree
Bugzilla
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* Ajit managing defects, assigning them
DPDK Release Status Meetings
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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.
