Minutes 17 January 2018 ----------------------- Agenda: * Release Dates * RC3 deadline * Subtrees * Bugzilla * OvS
Participants: * Debian * Intel * Mellanox * NXP * RedHat Release Dates ------------- * v19.02 dates: * RC2 released on Monday, January 14 * RC3 planned on Friday, January 18 * RC4 planned on Friday, January 25 * Release: Friday, February 1, 2019 * Roadmap page: http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates * v19.05 proposal: * v19.05 is approaching and it is expected to be a big release, we can start discussing dates based on following proposal: * Proposal Deadline: Friday, 1 March * RC1: Friday, 29 March * Release: Friday, 10 May * 8 weeks prev release to rc1, 6 weeks rc1 to release * Some historical data from 17.05 & 18.05 appended to the bottom to help discussion [1] * Contributors please provide 19.05 roadmap whenever available RC3 deadline ------------ * RC3 is planned this Friday (tomorrow)! * There will be small number of changes, nothing major. Subtrees -------- * main * Not many patches are waiting (< 20) * Ferruh will help reviewing Intel FPGA bus patches * next-net * Only a few patches merged, will be ready for Friday * Pulled from next-net-intel & next-net-mlx * Will pull from next-net-virtio today * next-virtio * There will be patches for rc3, will be ready today * next-crypto * There are some patches waiting for merge * Compress unit tests are waiting * Akhil will not able to available for some time * Thomas will get patches, Pablo will support on reviews * next-eventdev * next-pipeline * next-qos * No update, we need attendance from maintainers * Stable trees * No stable release has been released after v18.11, v16.11.9, v17.11.5, v18.11.1, v18.08.1, all are waiting. Some released rc but waiting for testing * Will discuss with Qian (Intel test team lead) the stable tree testing plan * If testing blocked we need to find a way as community to unblock stable releases Bugzilla -------- * Intel is pulling defects from Bugzilla * Still overall defect number is increasing * Should we push harder for fixes? OvS --- * 2.11 branching pushed from Tuesday to Friday * Port represontor support patch has been sent, new version expected * Ian working on verifying them with ixgbe & i40e * Requested from DPDK to document port represontor better * Requested to backport this documentation update to 18.11.x 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 an email to "John McNamara <john.mcnam...@intel.com>" for the invite. [1] Historical release dates v17.02 : 14.02 v17.05-rc1: 06.04 (almost 8 weeks) v17.05-rc2: 21.04 (2 weeks) v17.05-rc3: 02.05 (2 weeks) v17.05-rc4: 07.05 (a week) v17.05 : 11.05 (almost a week) 8 weeks to RC1, 5 weeks to rc1 to release (overall 13 weeks) v18.02 : 14.02 v18.05-rc1: 28.04 (almost 11 weeks) v18.05-rc2: 02.05 (3 days) v18.05-rc3: 15.05 (2 weeks) v18.05-rc4: 15.05 (same day) v18.05-rc5: 23.05 (almost a week) v18.05-rc6: 28.05 (almost a week) v18.05 : 30.05 (2 days) 11 weeks to rc1, 5 weeks rc1 to release (overall 16 weeks)
