Minutes 21 November 2019
------------------------
Agenda:
* Release Dates
* RC3 Status
* Subtrees
* OvS
* Opens
Participants:
* Arm
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Mellanox
* NXP
* Red Hat
Release Dates
-------------
* v19.11 dates:
* RC3 is released on Wednesday 20 November
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2019-November/000302.html
* RC4 Tuesday 26 November
* Release Wednesday 27 November
* Dates for 20.02 :
* Proposal/V1: Friday 6 December 2019
* Integration/Merge/RC1: Wednesday 15 January 2020
* Release: Friday 14 February 2020
RC3 Status
----------
* Intel validation not reported any critical issue
Only one Windows build issue and driver issue reported
Subtrees
--------
* main
* Mostly good
* Tooling for ABI checks will be reviewed
* Need to get documentation patches after this point
* Windows patches in backlog deferred to next release
* WFE can spend more time to become more generic
* next-net
* No big backlog, will get fixes after rc3 phase
* There are ethdev deprecation notices waiting for review
* next-net-crypto
* What to do with armv8 crypto PMD in this release needs to be clarified.
* next-net-eventdev
* There will be a set of patches after rc3, Jerin will send pull request
* next-net-virtio
* No more patch planned for release, except fixes
* There is one in backlog will be directly merged to next-net
* next-net-intel
* Already merged some fixes after rc3, more to come
* Only fixes will be merged after this point
* next-net-mlx
* Expecting more bug fixes after rc3
* LTS
* CVE related releases done last week
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2019-November/000300.html
* Release announcements
19.08.2: https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2019-November/000299.html
18.11.5: https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2019-November/000298.html
16.11.11: https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2019-November/000297.html
17.11.9: https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2019-November/000296.html
OvS
---
* 2.13 integration validating DPDK19.11-rc3
There are some regressions under investigation
* Discussing to more to 19.11 in next release or not
Good to get more DPDK19.11 testing from other vendors
DPDK Release Status Meetings
============================
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.
