Minutes 14 February 2019
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* GSoC
* OvS
* Meson-Ninja
* Opens
Participants:
* Arm
* Debian
* Intel
* Mellanox
* RedHat
Release Dates
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* v19.05 dates:
* Proposal Deadline: Friday, 1 March
* RC1: Friday, 29 March
* Release: Friday, 10 May
* Schedule web page updated accordingly:
http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates
* Contributors please provide 19.05 roadmap whenever available
* Mellanox, Arm & Intel sent, RedHat? NXP? Marvel? others?
Subtrees
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* main
* Merged some patches and pulled sub-trees
* next-net
* Some patches pushed and merged into main repo
* Small number of patches awaiting merge
* next-virtio
* Some patches pushed and merged into next-net
* next-crypto
* next-eventdev
* next-pipeline
* next-qos
* No update, we need attendance from maintainers
* Stable trees
* Stable tree RC waiting for test, anyone from community welcome to test them
send a test report or even a quick note to mail list:
* LTS: v16.11.9-rc2
* LTS: v17.11.5-rc2
* Stable: v18.08.1-rc3
* Reminder, each stable managed as a branch on stable git tree:
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/
* 17.11.5 merged one more fix
* 17.11.5 will be released without waiting more testing
* 16.11.9 is the last release of 16.11, will wait for more test
* 18.11 will create an RC next week
GSoC
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* Google Summer of Code
* Some good suggestions sent to the list
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/web/2019-February/001025.html
OvS
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* A week away for 2.11 release
* Patch for using meson build system for pkg-config
* David found issue with EAL threads. Regression came in 18.05
Meson-Ninja
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* Debian and Canonical are using it
* PDF build not working
* Thomas seeing some issues with cross-compilation and non-standard dependencies
* Windows trying to using
* RedHat still using make. RHEL 7 doesn't have support. RHEL 8 does
* There is a target to switch to meson build on 19.11
Opens
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* Akhil is looking for co-maintainer for crypto sub-tree,
any volunteer please contact to Akhil or Thomas.
* Propose 19.08 dates next week
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 an email to "John McNamara <john.mcnam...@intel.com>" for the invite.
