Minutes 7 November 2019
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* OvS
* Conferences
* Opens
Participants:
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Mellanox
* NXP
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v19.11 dates:
* RC1 is released on Sunday 27 October
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2019-October/000284.html
* RC2 Friday 8 November
* RC3 Friday 15 November
* Release Friday 22 November
* Proposed dates for 20.02 :
* Proposal/V1: Friday 6 December 2019
* Integration/Merge/RC1: Wednesday 15 January 2020
* Release: Friday 14 February 2020
Subtrees
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* main
* ABI/API patches, and tooling reviews are going on, more review welcome
* ABI policy:
v8: https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=7255&state=*
* tooling
v6: https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=7299&state=*
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=7004
* WFE under review
v12: https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=7224&state=*
* LTO series in the queue
v6: https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=7128&state=*
* vfio fixes may be pushed today
* new arm target patch under review
* mempool patch applied, KNI iova=va patch can go in after review
* Windows series can go in rc3
* next-net
* There are more ethdev patches that will be included in rc2
* configure SR-IOV VF from host patch will be deferred to next release
* Will merge as much for rc2 but remaining will be deferred to next rc
* Will make next-net ready for rc2 on Friday morning
* next-net-crypto
* Almost ready for rc2
* Future of the arm based crypto is not clear
* ipsec-secgw, set default to IPsec library mode deferred to next release
* Compression, waiting for new version
* A work-group established in techboard to decide on CPU crypto decisions
* next-net-eventdev
* pull request sent, planned to pull today
* next-net-virtio
* Sent pull request, ready for rc2
* next-net-intel
* ipn3ke PMD waiting for a new version
* LTS
* v18.11.3 is released
https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2019-October/000283.html
* Next week Kevin will start backporting patches for next release
OvS
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* vhost patch to enable large buffer support merged, this will help enabling TSO
in OvS.
Conferences
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* DPDK Summit North America, Mountain View CA, November 12-13
https://www.dpdk.org/event/dpdk-summit-na-mountain-view/
Opens
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* Governing board triggered some questions related DPDK community lab,
we can have more discussion soon related to utilizing the lab better
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.
