Minutes 11 June 2020 -------------------- Agenda: * Meeting * Release Dates * Subtrees * OvS
Participants: * Arm * Debian/Microsoft * Intel * Mellanox * Red Hat Meeting ------- * Call for maintainers to follow up on patches that have stalled. * There are several patchset hanging around but not progressing. * Maintainers should ask people for reviews or to respond to open comments. * This would help overall progress with merging. * From next week (18 June) we with use Jitsi instead of Skype for meetings: * https://meet.jit.si/DPDK Release Dates ------------- * v20.08 dates: * Proposal/V1: Friday, 12 June 2020 * -rc1: Wednesday, 8 July 2020 * -rc2: Monday, 20 July 2020 * Release: Tuesday, 4 August 2020 Subtrees -------- * main * Series from Stephen Hemminger on changing whitelist/blacklist: * http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-June/170240.html * There are a lot of patch series in this release including: * RCU integration * Bitops - ready for merge * Lcore hotplug - for attaching external threads * Vfio VF token interface * IF Proxy * Several Windows series * next-net * Merging on track ahead of V1 deadline. * next-crypto * No update this week. * next-eventdev * No update this week. * next-virtio * Not a lot of patches. * Changes and improvements in virtio/vhost initialization. * Significant rework of the vDPA API - goal is to remove the experimental tag. * next-net-mlx * Some big series ready to be merged or pending - patches to support Windows. LTS --- * v19.11.3-rc1 is out, please test * https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-June/169263.html * Test results from Intel and Mellanox. * Waiting for results from Microsoft, OvS and Red Hat. * v18.11.9 in progress * Majority of patches backported. * Issues with GCC10. * RC1 towards the end of next week. * Then moving to validation phase. OvS --- * Validating CVE fixes * A performance drop observed previously couldn't be replicated. * Release feature deadline is beginning of the July and code freeze mid July 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.
