Minutes 18 October 2018
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Agenda:
* Dates
* Subtrees
Participants:
* Intel
* Mellanox
Release Dates
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* RC1 date *pushed out a week*, it is now *Friday, 26 October 2018*
* RC2 date is *Friday, 2 November 2018*
* Release date is *Tuesday, 20 November 2018*
* RC1 is pushed out in favor of more complete and stable RC1
* 19.02 dates are discussed
* There are a few holidays during release time,
Christmas Holiday: 24-25 December, many people will get whole week off
New Year: 1 January 2019, some will get whole week off
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival): 4-10 February
* Planed to have a *small release*, in favor of 19.05
* Dates will be discussed more detailed on dev mail list, current proposal
* Proposal deadline: 23 November [Yes, just a little after 18.11 release]
* Integration deadline: 14 December
* RC1: 21 December
* Release: 1 February 2019
Subtrees
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* main
* There are patches waiting to be pulled.
* A few hash patchsets, asked Bruce to review them
* telemetry patchset, eal API needs more API documentation
* eal and driver updates from Ilya, needs review
* Power patches are in the queue
* IOVA patches are worrying, needs more review
* Some KNI patches are ready for merge
* Thomas is working on hotplug cleanup patches
* They are not tested much yet
* next-net
* Nothing blocking, a few patchset from Thomas, Andrew is reviewing them
* next-crypto
* Thomas will pull from it today
* next-virtio
* Was ready for RC1 and already pulled
* next-eventdev
* next-pipeline
* next-qos
* Pulled, there are a few patches for RC1
DPDK Release Status Meetings
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