Minutes 18 April 2019
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* RC1 status
* Subtrees
* OvS
* Opens
Participants:
* Arm
* Debian
* Intel
* Mellanox
* RedHat
Release Dates
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* v19.05 dates, RC2 date pushed to Friday:
* RC2: *Friday, 19 April*
* RC3: Monday , 29 April
* Release: Friday, 10 May
* v19.08 dates:
* Proposal/V1 Monday 03 June 2019
* Integration/Merge/RC1 Monday 01 July 2019
* Release Thurs 01 August 2019
* Schedule updated on roadmap page:
https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/
* v19.11 proposed dates, please comment.
* Proposal/V1 Friday 06 September 2019
* Integration/Merge/RC1 Friday 11 October 2019
* Release Friday 08 November 2019
* Constrains:
* PRC holidays on October 1-7 inclusive, rc1 shouldn't overlap with it
* US DPDK Summit on mid November, better to have release before summit
* Some historical .11 release dates data:
17.08: Tue Aug 8
17.11-rc1: Sat Oct 14 (9 weeks and 4 days)
17.11: Wed Nov 15 (4 weeks and 4 days)
Overall 17.11 release took: 14 weeks and 1 day
18.08: Thu Aug 9
18.11-rc1: Mon Oct 29 (11 weeks and 4 days)
18.11: Mon Nov 26 (4 weeks)
Overall 18.11 release took: 15 weeks and 4 days
RC1 status
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* RC1 Intel test results looks good, no major issue detected
Subtrees
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* main
* Merged timer library
* For RCU there are questions around API/ABI stability (inline functions)
Leaning to merge as it is
* next-net
* Ready for rc2, some waiting fixes can go in after rc2
* If atlantic macsec patches makes on time, can go in rc2
* Remaining patches won't be able to make the release
* next-virtio
* Tree prepared for rc2 and merged into next-net
* next-crypto
* Akhil get some patches today/tomorrow
* Will be ready for rc2
* next-eventdev
* next-pipeline
* next-qos
* No update, we need attendance from maintainers
* Stable trees
* No update
OvS
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* OvS master/2.11.x release agreed to move 18.11.1
* For DPDK 17.11, OvS decided to skip 17.11.5 and use 17.11.6 since it
is close to be released
* OvS testing on DPDK Community Lab is up now,
The discussion is which version of OvS and DPDK to use, using top of
development branch for both right now, should stick a fixed version for
OvS?
* af_xdp support on OvS proposed, there were some patches for it
Opens
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* Akhil is looking for co-maintainer for crypto sub-tree
* Coverity is up and there are already some fixes hit the mail list,
this is good progress, as a reminder, coverity dpdk project link:
https://scan.coverity.com/projects/dpdk-data-plane-development-kit?tab=overview
* A patch to fix all document spelling errors has been sent by John,
there will be new version of it
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.
