Minutes 2 May 2019
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* RC2 status
* Subtrees
* OvS
* Conferences
* Opens
Participants:
* Debian
* Intel
* Mellanox
* RedHat
Release Dates
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* v19.05 dates, RC3 date pushed to Friday, 3 May:
* RC3: *Friday, 3 May*
* RC4: Wednesday, 8 May
* Release: Friday, 10 May
* May 1-4 inclusive is holiday in PRC, Intel testing won't be
available during that time
* 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
RC2 status
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* RC2 Intel test results looks good, no major issue detected
Subtrees
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* main
* RCU library is merged
* There is a avx512 related defect waiting
* There are more fixes to merge
* next-net
* A few fixes, no major issue, will be ready for rc3
* next-virtio
* No patches for rc3
* next-crypto
* pulled into main repository yesterday
* There are a few more fixes from Bruce
* next-eventdev
* 2 patches merged directly into main repo
* next-pipeline
* next-qos
* No update, we need attendance from maintainer
* Stable trees
* 18.11.2 is in progress
OvS
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* For OvS testing on DPDK Community Lab, which branch to test leaning to:
DPDK: "master" branch,
OvS: "dpdk-latest" branch which will be rebased monthly on "master" branch
* Tested 17.11.6-rc1 (with OvS 2.10 & 2.9), no issues found so far
Conferences
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* DPDK Userspace summit: DPDK Userspace · Sept. 19-20, 2019
https://www.dpdk.org/event/dpdk-userspace-bordeaux/
* CFP Opens: Monday, April 29
* CFP Closes: Friday, May 24
Opens
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* Akhil is looking for co-maintainer for crypto sub-tree
* There is a demand on backporting driver features into stable releases,
should discuss more with community
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.
