Meeting minutes of 10 September 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* LTS
* Conferences
Participants:
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Nvidia
* NXP
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v20.11 dates
* Proposal/V1: Friday, 11 September 2020
* -rc1: Friday, 9 October 2020
* -rc2: Friday, 23 October 2020
* Release: Friday, 13 November 2020
* Nvidia Mellanox, Marvell & Broadcom already sent roadmap, all contributors
please send roadmap for the release.
* Reminder, proposal deadline is end of this week.
Subtrees
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* main
* Makefile support dropped
* Patches merged partially, they will be merged as they get ready
* All maintainers should check relevant document
* Documentation change for make remove is big, everyone should support
* Default git branch changed to 'main'
* More help/review required for ethdev library changes
* Specially for rte flow ones
* We may think about more tree maintainers
* rawdev can be an option
* next-net
* ~200 patches
* Some patches merged and has pulled from some subtrees
* Some ethdev from previous releases are still open
* next-crypto
* No update yet, will merge some this week
* next-eventdev
* no update
* next-virtio
* There are some patches pending from Nvidia and Intel
* Will send following before v1 deadline
* deprecate zero copy as discussed
* remove the experimental tag from vDPA
* next-net-intel
* Some patches merged and pulled by next-net
* next-net-mlx
* Couple of features are coming
* mirroring/sampling needs to go ethdev
* There is a different proposal in main repo
* next-net-mrvl, next-net-brcm
* no update
LTS
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* 18.11.10-r1 is out, please test
* http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20200907101224.12396-1-ktray...@redhat.com/
* Release planned on two weeks
* v19.11.4 released
* http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20200907145718.120980-1-luca.bocca...@gmail.com/
Conferences
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* DPDK Userspace summit 2020 is on September 22 & 23, schedule is online:
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-userspace-summit/program/schedule/
* Two days, overall 6 hours (2x3) of talks
* No break between talks
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.
