Minutes 9 May 2019
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* RC3 status
* Subtrees
* OvS
* Conferences
* Opens
Participants:
* Arm
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Mellanox
* RedHat
Release Dates
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* v19.05 dates:
* RC3 is released on Saturday, 4 May
* RC4 date pushed to: *Thursday, 9 May*
* Release date pushed to: *Monday, 13 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
RC3 status
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* RC3 Intel test results looks good
* IBM sent test report to the mail list, no issue reported
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-May/131908.html
Subtrees
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* main
* Will pull from next-net
* Will get doc patches
* Hash library issue probably can wait
* Probably will get IPC fixes and will check timer fixes
* next-net
* Got some code changes, pulled from intel and mlx trees
* next-virtio
* No patches for rc4
* next-crypto
* There are doc patches to merge
* A few code patches can go in directly to main repo
* next-eventdev
* next-pipeline
* next-qos
* No update, we need attendance from maintainer
* Stable trees
* 18.11.2 is in progress
* Will have the -rc on 20 May
* Planning to release roughly on four weeks, it would be great to get
LTS test results within this time frame
* There is a patch that adds new device ids, should get it to LTS?
* There is no objection to backport the patch, only need to confirm
with driver maintainer that old driver supports new device ids
OvS
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* Nothing major
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
* Reminder of the short CFP duration and deadline is approaching
* US summit dates are not fixed yet
Opens
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* Akhil is looking for co-maintainer for crypto sub-tree
* Where is the DTS in dpdk website. It is in:
* https://www.dpdk.org/hosted-projects/
* Defects
* We can discuss with Ajit to get defects status offline since the meeting
timing is not good for him
* Test reports
* It can be good if testers shares the test reports publicly in dev mail list
* Report can be sent as reply to -rc announce mail, but only to the dev mail
list, excluding the 'announce' mail list
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.
