Minutes 23 May 2019
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* LTS
* OvS
* Opens
Participants:
* ARM
* Broadcom
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Mellanox
* RedHat
Release Dates
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* 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/
* Reminder to send roadmaps for the release, it helps planning
* Intel is planning to send roadmap by the end of this week
* Marvell will have new PMDs and will provide a 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
* Constraints:
* 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
Subtrees
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* Main
* No activity this week.
* Will target weekly merge starting next week.
* Next-Net
* RTE_prefix patch to be merged early.
* This will cause a lot of breakage in patches/backports.
* There is a script to convert the prefix automatically.
* Next-virtio
* Not many patches yet.
* Patch for SPDK.
* Under review. There is a new API(s).
* Requested some example code to demonstrate the APIs.
* Next-Crypto
* No patches yet.
* Next-Eventdev
* New timer patch for eventdev. Needs to be reviewed.
* Next-Ip-pipeline
* No update
* Stable trees
* 17.11.6
* 17.11.6 released 22 May 2019
* Testing with Red Hat lab (was down temporarily).
* 18.11.2
* 18.11.2-RC1 released 21 May 2019
* 11 June is the planned release date.
* Will be looking for testing from the community.
OvS
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* 18.11.2 RC1 is out.
* Need to look at the impact of the rte_prefix.
* Will rebase end-of-month DPDKmaster to OvS
* 2.12 release dates
* 1 July for feature freeze
* No features beyond that date
* 20th July for code freeze
Conferences
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* DPDK Userspace summit: DPDK Userspace ยท 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 can able to spend more time on crypto sub-tree and there is a potential
co-maintainer from Arm, can close this open for now
* There still some Coverity defects open, some of them are from Marvell, NXP
drivers, it would be great to close them
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.
