Minutes 30 April 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* -rc1 status
* Subtrees
* OvS
* Opens
Participants:
* Arm
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Mellanox
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v20.05 dates:
* -rc1 is released on Monday, 27 April
* http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/2138318.D4D8VRik6i@thomas/
* -rc2 Friday 8 May 2020
* Release: Wednesday 20 May 2020
* v20.08 proposal dates, please comment:
* Proposal/V1: Tuesday, 16 June 2020
* Integration/Merge/RC1: Tuesday, 14 July 2020
* Release: Friday, 7 August 2020
* Please send roadmap for the release
-rc1 status
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* Intel completed majority of tests, no major issue found so far
* Test report will be sent when ready
* Marvel test report also doesn't show any major issue
Subtrees
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* main
* Mainly fixes at this moment
* gcc10 fixes
* still not all fixed, should be fixed for -rc2
* eal and ABI patches
* __rte_internal
* working on merging rte_graph and rte_telemetry for -rc2
* bitops is cleanup patch, would be good to have it in -rc1
at this stage it may not make this release
* meson patches from Bruce to fix static linking
May be postponed to next release
* Rawdev for compress+crc multi function, short-term
solution needs to be decided in mail list
* next-net
* Started to merge patches, no big patchset for -rc2
* ethdev patch not accepted because of ABI break, it will need to wait 20.11
* http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/1923738.gORTcIGjah@thomas/
* ~60 patches in backlog for -rc2
* next-crypto
* no update
* next-eventdev
* Only a few patches for -rc2 to be reviewed
* next-virtio
* Good progress this week, some patches already merged for -rc2
* mlx5 vdpa, packet ring vector path, zero copy optimizations, etc...
* Only a few remaining, PR almost ready
* next-net-intel
* Some fixes for -rc2 has been merged and pulled to next-net
* next-net-mrvl
* ~10 patches to be reviewed for -rc2
OvS
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* Finished validating stable trees
* OvS 2.11 & 2.12 validated with DPDK 18.11.7
* OvS 2.13 & master branch validated with DPDK 19.11.1
Opens
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* Latest coverity scan showed 120 new defects, some of them from old code base,
this may be related to the coverity backend changes
* Need more support to resolve all new issues
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.
