Minutes 20 August 2020 ---------------------- Agenda: * Release Dates * Highlights * 20.08 retrospective * LTS * Opens
Participants: * Arm * Broadcom * Debian/Microsoft * Intel * Marvell * Nvidia * NXP * Red Hat Release Dates ------------- * v20.11 dates * Proposal/V1: Friday, 11 September 2020 * -rc1: Friday, 9 October 2020 * -rc2: Friday, 23 October 2020 * Release: Friday, 13 November 2020 Highlights ---------- * No roadmap received yet. 20.11 is expected to be a big release, please send roadmaps to help managing the project. * Need support for crypto tree. There are four new PMDs for this release and Akhil won't be available for some time. We need additional support on reviews. 20.08 retrospective ------------------- * 20.08 released on Sun, 09 Aug * http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/8108418.8U4FE8ErZL@thomas/ * Overall able to hit the dates without much deviation in original plan * Not much improvement on doc maintainership * Short time between -rc1 & -rc2 didn't give enough time for bug fixes * If we have flexibility we can ensure a minimum time in between * There were many features, not all able to make into release * Overall this is affecting all vendors * A process update to assign patches to reviewers will be voted in techboard * Different solutions discussed in the past, this is recurring problem * vhost maintainer changes recovered quickly * Inactive sub-trees removed, good to dynamically add/remove them LTS --- * v19.11.4-rc1 is out, please test * http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20200818181222.8462-1-bl...@debian.org/T/#u * 200+ commits merged * Intel will start testing it * Target release date is 31 August. Opens ----- * event/dlb PMD may need some support for upstreaming, will follow in Intel. 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 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.
