Minutes 12 December 2019
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* OvS
Participants:
* Arm
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Mellanox
* NXP
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v20.02 dates:
* Proposal/V1 deadline passed, it was on Wednesday 11 December 2019
* Integration/Merge/RC1: Wednesday 15 January 2020
* Release: Friday 14 February 2020
* Reminder for 20.02 roadmaps from contributors,
Marvell & arm already sent, waiting from other contributors.
Subtrees
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* main
* Working on ABI breakage issue with high priority
* Consensus is not have 19.11.1 to fix it, but workaround it and live
with this workaround for ABI_20 lifetime
* David is reviewing ABI tooling patches
* next-net
* Nothing much in both backlog and the repo
* 'ionic' PMD reviewed, licensing needs to be clarified
* next-net-crypto
* eventmode to ipsec-secgw patchset will be reviewed this week
* Need to clarify CPU crypto patchset status, also Akhil will start a
discussion to clarify the techboard working group decision on matter
* For Intel crypto PMDs, the external dependent libraries are switching to
single "Intel IPSec Multi-buffer library" opensource library:
* https://github.com/intel/intel-ipsec-mb
* octeontx inline ipsec patchset is in the queue
* there is a crypto unit test update, all PMD maintainers should be aware of
these changes
* https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/63788/
* next-net-eventdev
* no update
* next-net-virtio
* Working on virtio vdpa driver, new version
* Move vdpa related code to a common folder discussion not clarified yet.
* LTS
* 17.11.10
* Some patches already backported, targeting January for release
* 18.11.6
* Another batch of patches backported
* Will send list of backport failed patches which is growing
* May have -rc mid next week
* Yunan will check if it can be validated if -rc is out next week
OvS
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* There was OvS conference this week, videos will be available later:
http://www.openvswitch.org/support/ovscon2019/
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.
