Minutes 6 August 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* -rc3/-rc4 status
* Subtrees
* LTS
* OvS
Participants:
* Arm
* Broadcom
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* NXP
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v20.08 dates:
* -rc3 is released on Thursday, 30 July 2020
* http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/11727811.Rr6YEUNczV@thomas/
* -rc4 is released on Wednesday, 5 August 2020
* http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/4161866.7AHn6HmuGJ@thomas/
* Release Friday, 7 August 2020
* v20.11 proposal dates, please comment:
* Proposal/V1: Friday, 11 September 2020
* -rc1: Friday, 9 October 2020
* -rc2: Friday, 23 October 2020
* Release: Friday, 13 November 2020
* The dates are still not finalized, we need to discuss this offline and
define dates as soon as possible, please comment.
* Please remember to send roadmap for 20.11, non received yet.
-rc3/-rc4 status
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* Intel early -rc4 test result looks good
* Fixes for two critical issues from -rc3 verified
* Red Hat -rc3 test result in mail list
* No issue reported, all looks good
Subtrees
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* main
* Only documentation updates after this point
* John will help on release notes updates/review
* There are lots of deprecation notices to review for the release
* Tested platform patch form Mellanox merged, good to have similar report from
all vendors for release notes
* https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/74994/
* https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/75198/
* Please review roadmap website update patch
* http://patchwork.dpdk.org/patch/75181/
* Please all maintainers cleanup the patchwork before release
* next-net
* No update after -rc3
* Relevant patches directly merged to main repo by Thomas
* There are deprecation notices to review for release
* next-crypto
* No update on tree
* Two/Three deprecation notices waiting for merge
* next-eventdev
* No update on tree
* There are deprecation notices in backlog
* The one adding reserved fields may be dropped
* next-virtio
* Done for release
* vdpa patches for -rc4 merged directly to main repo
* There is a Vhost dequeue zero-copy removal deprecation notice
* https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/75147/
* Need to sync with OvS community related to it
* Another deprecation notice for rte_dev_probe() change
* https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/72170/
* Thomas & Maxime will synchronize offline on it
* next-net-mlx, next-net-intel, next-net-brcm
* Patches merged directly to main repo
LTS
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* 19.11.4 work is going on
* Some patches are backported, email sent, please review
* 18.11.10 work is going on
* Some patches are backported
OvS
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* 2.14 release trending for 17 August
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 every Thursdays at 8:30 UTC. on https://meet.jit.si/DPDK
If you wish to attend just send an email to
"John McNamara <john.mcnam...@intel.com>" for the invite.
