Minutes 5 March 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* OvS
* Opens
Participants:
* Arm
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Mellanox
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v20.05 dates:
* Proposal/V1: Wednesday 18 March 2020
* Integration/Merge/RC1: Friday 17 April 2020
* Release: Wednesday 20 May 2020
* Marvell already sent roadmap for 20.05, all vendors please share the
roadmap for the release.
Subtrees
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* main
* There are some work in eal
* Working on CI (travis)
* Will be good to have __rte_intenal patches
* GCC 10 needs to be fixed
* Will ask in Intel for the resource for it
* It would be good to do early merges from sub-trees
* One will be done early next week
* next-net
* Some patches are merged
* Need to resolve ethdev RFCs as soon as possible
* next-crypto
* Anoob reminded ipsec-secgw eventmode patches to be merged early in this
release cycle
* next-eventdev
* No patches as of now
* next-virtio
* Nothing big as of now
* Xiaolong is additional maintainer for vhost/virtio now
* Currently Maxime is the only maintainer for virtio tree, good to have backup
* next-net-intel
* Not too many patches in backlog, some already merged
* Gavin mentioned there will be some patches from Arm
* Arm will send Intel & Mellanox NIC patches
* Kevin commented it may be good to get more help from Intel NIC maintainers
to Xiaolong taking into account his extended virtio/vhost tasks
* LTS
* 17.11.10 released
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-February/158735.html
* It has been EOL, thanks everyone worked on it
* 18.11.7
* Majority of the backports done
* -rc1 expected end of next week, 13 March
* Release planned for April, depending validation
* 19.11.1-rc1 released, please test and report results
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-March/158923.html
* Release planned for end of March
OvS
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* Intel is planning to propose using vhost PMD in OvS
* Also there may be some updates in DPDK vhost sample apps,
since they look outdated.
* OVS-DPDK meeting was yesterday, thanks Kevin for notes and recording:
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-March/159150.html
* Interested parties invited for follow up discussions
Opens
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* We should make NIC feature matrix more readable, Thomas has an idea
* https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/overview.html
* Thomas suggested defining minimum set of required feature for the NICs,
we can discuss this more in the mail list
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.
