Minutes 20 February 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* -rc3 status
* Subtrees
* OvS
* Opens
Participants:
* Arm
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Mellanox
* NXP
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v20.02 dates:
* -rc3 is released on 16 February
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-February/157922.html
* -rc4 Friday 21 February 2020
* Release pushed to *Friday 25 February 2020*
* Release date may postponed if any critical issue found in -rc4 testing
* v20.05 *updated* proposal, please comment:
* Proposal/V1: Wednesday 18 March 2020
* Integration/Merge/RC1: Friday 17 April 2020
* Release: Wednesday 20 May 2020
* The update request is based on delays in 20.02
* Release date postponed more taking into PRC holiday on 1-5 May into account
-rc3 Status
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* Intel and Red Hat sent test results, thank you.
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-February/158184.html
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-February/158285.html
Subtrees
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* main
* For pure experimental libraries, there is an library versioning problem
This is critical to be solved for the -rc4, Intel will try to find resource
to work on it.
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-February/158012.html
* Devtools will be merged
* Doc/deprecation notices are in the queue
* Requested an early merge from next-net, since some fixes accumulated
* John will start on working release notes review
* next-net
* Bug fixes merged for -rc4, pulled sub-trees
* next-net-crypto
* There are some fixes, Akhil will merge in next a few hours
* examples/fips_validation patch will be merged to main repo by David
* next-net-eventdev
* No update
* next-net-virtio
* Bug fixes merged for -rc4
* next-net-intel
* Bug fixes merged for -rc4
* LTS
* 17.11.10-rc1 released, please test and report results
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-January/154915.html
* Waiting for QAT issue
* Release will be postponed one more week
OvS
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* 2.13 is ready, waiting for announcement
Opens
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* Lots of coverity issues fixed, thanks.
* There is a coverity sticker in patchwork now
* https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/
Which reports 14 new defects as of now
* Plan is to trigger coverity scan from the travis
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.
