Minutes 5 December 2019 ----------------------- Agenda: * Release Dates * 19.11 feedback * Subtrees * OvS
Participants: * Arm * Debian/Microsoft * Intel * Mellanox * NXP * Red Hat Release Dates ------------- * v19.11 is released on Friday, 29 November v19.11 is latest LTS and will be supported next two years. * https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-November/152519.html * https://core.dpdk.org/download/ * https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.html * v20.02 dates: * Proposal/V1: Wednesday 11 December 2019 * Integration/Merge/RC1: Wednesday 15 January 2020 * Release: Friday 14 February 2020 * Reminder for 20.02 roadmaps from contributors, non received yet. 19.11 feedback -------------- * Gavin reported a performance drop on specific NICs with v19.11, will report the issue via Bugzilla. Subtrees -------- * main * Build issue in the main repo solved * next-net * Nothing much in both backlog and the repo yet * 'ionic' PMD reviewed, got confirmation that it will be re-licensed as BSD-3 * next-net-crypto * add eventmode to ipsec-secgw patchset is in the backlog * There is a request to have release notes template ready for next releases so that patches addressing those releases can update them * This can be confusing for release packages, to have release notes from future releases, so they won't be included. * Need to clarify CPU crypto patchset status, if it requires ABI breakage, it may need to wait for next LTS * next-net-eventdev * l3fwd eventdev support patches are in backlog * WANTED: l3fwd sample app is missing maintainer, we need volunteers for maintaining and/or reviewing it. * next-net-virtio * dynamic logging patch is in the queue * Will work on virtio vdpa driver * Should we move vdpa related code to a common folder? * LTS * 17.11.10 * Luca is working on it with best effort, planning a release on December * This will be last 17.11.x release * 18.11.6 * Kevin already backported some patches and sent notification emails for it * ~150 more patches waiting for the backporting * For the patches that failed to backport automatically, emails sent to authors and mail list to request help from authors for backporting. * Is this method working or if we can find more effective way. OvS --- * DPDK 19.11 support upstreamed on 'master' branch * Next week there will be OvS conference: http://www.openvswitch.org/support/ovscon2019/ 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.
