Minutes 15 November 2018 ------------------------ Agenda: * Dates * RC3 status * Subtrees * Bugzilla * OvS * Conferences
Participants: * 6Wind * Intel * Mellanox * NXP * RedHat Release Dates ------------- * RC1 was out on Monday, 29 October. * RC2 was out on Tuesday, 6 November. * RC3 was out on Tuesday, 13 November. * RC4 date is *Monday, 19 November* * RC5 data is *Thursday, 22 November* * Release date *pushed out* to *Saturday, 24 November* * 19.02 dates discussion on mail list: https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-October/116345.html Proposed dates copy-paste from above thread: * Proposal deadline Friday 23 November 2018 * Merge deadline Friday 14 December 2018 * RC1 release Friday 21 December 2018 * RCx + Testing Friday 25 January 2019 * Release Friday 1 February 2019 RC3 status ---------- * Intel test results look good, no blockers, now new high issues * There are existing high issues, working on it * One is external memory related, Anatoly is submitted a patch * One is performance drop related disabling avx512 * Identified as GCC issue, Thomas/Ferruh will submit defect to GCC Bugzilla * Will go release with drop, will document it in release notes * RedHat test results * 1 issue, bug 76, debugged by Anatoly * Could be a RedHat kernel issue * Broadcom test results: * Ajit sent by mail: testing is looking OK so far. Subtrees -------- * main * Will be more code merges for RC4. * next-net * Will merge from next-net-mlx: * Has bug fixes. * Hopefully will be ready on Friday, but may be on Sunday. * May get i40e shared code update. * There are a few various bug fixes to merge. * next-crypto * No patches for RC4. * next-virtio * Will get a patch from vhost-crypto. * next-eventdev * No patches for RC4. * next-pipeline * Will be a python script. * next-qos * Bugzilla -------- * Ajit sent following status: * It has generally been quite since the last few bugs were fixed. OvS --- * Kevin sent out 2 patches/fixes - minimal set to get it working * Ophir sent out an RC3 patchset - based on above with more features * Request to get as many people as possible testing Conferences ----------- * DPDK and OvS US conferences agendas: * https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/dpdknorthamerica2018/dpdk-na-program/agenda/ * https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-vswitch-fall-conference-2018/program/schedule/ DPDK Release Status Meetings ============================ 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 an email and I will send you the invite.
