Minutes 14 March 2019
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* OvS
* Opens
Participants:
* Debian
* Intel
* Mellanox
* RedHat
Release Dates
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* v19.05 dates, no change:
* RC1: Friday, 29 March
* Release: Friday, 10 May
* Schedule web page updated accordingly:
http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates
* v19.08 proposal, updating since no objection to mail list discussion [1],
please comment if there is any concern:
* Proposal/V1 Friday 03 June 2019
* Integration/Merge/RC1 Friday 01 July 2019
* Release Thurs 01 August 2019
[1]: https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-February/125000.html
Subtrees
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* main
* More patches to merge, nothing major at this point
* Features of the release to pay attention:
* Arm locking patches
* Need more review
* Windows patches
* Thomas send a list of libs to cover for windows support to techboard,
will share with dev list after it has been discussed
* Overall ~500 patches are waiting, to be able to make rc1 on time, we should
be processed majority of it end of next week
* next-net
* nothing critical/urgent at this point
* af_xdp has a timing concern [2] since it dependents Linux kernel 5.1
version, suggestion is getting the PMD if Linux kernel side looks stable
- David Marchand offered additional reviews
[2]: https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-March/126426.html
* next-virtio
* not much merge expected this week
* next-crypto
* There is no update this week, Akhil will try to apply some patches over the
weekend
* next-eventdev
* next-pipeline
* next-qos
* No update, we need attendance from maintainers
* Will ping Cristian Dumitrescu for merging patches early to include them into
early merge
* Stable trees
* 18.11-1-rc1 is out, waiting to be tested
- Will try to get more detail on Intel testing plan for it
* 16.11.9-rc2 Intel confirmed that issues are not introduced in this release,
- Some issues already known
- There is a GRE checksum offload in i40e, can be possible to fix in LTS
It is waiting response from maintainers, if response doesn't come timely
it will be released with the issue.
* 18.08.1-rc3 is waiting for more test
- Will clarify Intel internally if there is a demand for it, if not can be
possible to drop the short term release.
- There is a discussion ongoing about future of short term stable trees:
https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-March/126394.html
OvS
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* No major issue, 2.11 released
Opens
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* Akhil is looking for co-maintainer for crypto sub-tree,
any volunteer please contact to Akhil or Thomas.
* Security process, some updates done on draft, it will be shared for wider
review
* Defects, we are not looking defects for a while, we should spend more time
on it in the next meeting.
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.
