Minutes 19 March 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* OvS
Participants:
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Mellanox
* NXP
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v20.05 dates:
* Proposal/V1 deadline passed, it was on Wednesday 18 March 2020
* Integration/Merge/RC1: Friday 17 April 2020
* Release: Wednesday 20 May 2020
* Marvell, Arm, Mellanox & Broadcom already sent roadmap for 20.05, all
vendors please share the roadmap for the release.
Subtrees
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* main
* V1 deadline closed, review cycle started, ~800 patches in backlog
* Working on CI for some Arm issues
* Will continue to work on eal and CI related
* next-net pulled
* Windows patches are merged
* There is a windows roadmap and bi-weekly meetings
* https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/windows/
* More parties are interested in the Windows support
* There will be an eal update from Thomas that re-organizes the folders
* next-net
* It is progressing, reviewing/merging gradually.
* next-crypto
* ipsec-secgw eventmode patches merged
* There are more patches to review
* Baseband driver
* Security test framework
* Will review/merge more on next week
* next-eventdev
* No update in the tree
* next-virtio
* Design discussion going on for DMA-accelerated vhost-user
* Rest are mostly fix patches
* next-net-intel
* ~100 patch in backlog, it is busy
* Two new PMDs, igc & dcf
* next-net-mlx
* More patches to come, some RFC sent as text, working to make everything
ready for -rc1
* LTS
* 18.11.7
* -rc1 expected towards end of week
* Release planned for 10 April
* 19.11.1 released
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-March/160132.html
OvS
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* Second OVS-DPDK meeting done, thanks Kevin for notes and recording:
* https://bluejeans.com/s/6wR3z
* Intel is preparing something to present in next meeting
* Planning to do more test on 19.11.1
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.
