Minutes 12 March 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* OvS
* Opens
Participants:
* 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 & Arm already sent roadmap for 20.05, all vendors please share the
roadmap for the release.
Subtrees
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* main
* Working on some eal patches, will merge some patches today/tomorrow
* Working on Windows patches
* Running coverity on travis has some challenges, Thomas will debug it more
* There can be an merge from sub-trees, next-net will clarify status before it
* next-net
* It is progressing, some patches already merged
* Not much improvement on ethdev RFCs, would like to resolve them before
it gets busy for the release cycle
* There is a new Intel PMD, igc
* next-crypto
* No update in the tree
* next-eventdev
* There is one patchset waiting that will be merged soon
* next-virtio
* Not much update, there are some virtio driver patches
* There are some example rework to use vhost PMD
* This is to be able to test vhost PMD more extensively within DPDK
* next-net-intel
* Multiple shared code drops sent
* Some patches already merged and pulled
* LTS
* 18.11.7
* Majority of the backports done
* -rc1 expected towards end of next week
* Release planned for mid April
* 19.11.1-rc1 released, please test and report results
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-March/158923.html
* Received test reports and some additional patches merged to fix reported
issues
* Ian will send OvS test result too, will wait it
* Can have an -rc2 afterwards
* Will release on Monday 16th, as planned
OvS
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* Removed pdump functionality, not used much by community
* vhost TSO updates may have broken the zero copy support, investigating
* Both above features are experimental
Opens
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* Affect of coronavirus, should something done to mitigate the risk
* Should we add backup maintainers for all sub-trees?
* The ones missing backup maintainer:
next-crypto
next-eventdev
Most of the vendor sub-trees under next-net, except Intel
* It looks like we can cover possible missing maintainers organically
* Possible work from home conditions seems won't affect much, working from
home works for many parties.
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.
