Minutes 16 April 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* OvS
Participants:
* Arm
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Mellanox
* NXP
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v20.05 dates:
* Integration/Merge/RC1 pushed to *Thursday 23 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
* There are still lots of patches, a lot of reviews are missing
* Sub-trees will be pulled next week Monday/Tuesday
* Sub-trees should be ready by EOD Friday or Saturday
* Thomas did review on graph library, planning to get it as it is
* Trace library will be merged for -rc1, the review was missing but at least
feedback requested
* Some library features may go in for -rc2 due to big backlog
* If the work is not finished, planning to block related patches
* Example: ABI breaks for false positive, don't get patches that
breaks ABI before fixing the ABI check tools.
* next-net
* Less than 50 patches in the backlog
* Some ethdev patches are not merged yet, close but not ready for -rc1
* mlx set that break the ABI not clarified yet, it may be dropped from tree
* next-crypto
* ~50 patches in backlog, reviewed most of them, will apply today
* ipsec patch depends on hash change which is for main repo
* Thomas will look to it with priority
* ABI related crypto patch will be reviewed today
* There is a reported build error from Raslan
* next-eventdev
* No more patches for -rc1, already pulled to main
* next-virtio
* Lots of reviews done last and this week, still have bunch of patches
* Some reviewed already and can be merged quickly
* Ones waiting for new version can go into next -rc
* There is a performance optimization for Arm patch waiting for review
* one way barrier for split vring idx
* next-net-intel
* Waiting for some major patchsets related to iavf
* They may not be ready for tomorrow
* next-net-mlx
* There are some big patchsets waiting, they are not blocking the -rc1
* flow aging patches waiting to be merged in next-net
* next-net-mrvl
* All patches merged for -rc1
* next-net-brcm
* There is a big patch merged recently, will pull it to next-net today
* LTS
* 18.11.7 released
* http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20200415173701.19706-1-ktray...@redhat.com/
OvS
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* There was another meeting last week, ping Kevin for details.
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.
