Minutes 12 March 2020 --------------------- Agenda: * Release Dates * Subtrees * OvS * Opens
Participants: * Debian/Microsoft * Intel * Marvell * Mellanox * Red Hat Release Dates ------------- * 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 -------- * 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 --- * 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 ----- * 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 ============================ 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.