Meeting minutes of 29 October 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* -rc1 status
* Subtrees

Participants:
* Arm
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* NXP
* Red Hat


Release Dates
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* v20.11 dates
  * -rc2 pushed to      *Tuesday, 3 November 2020*
  * -rc3:               Thursday, 12 November 2020
  * Release:            Wednesday, 25 November 2020


-rc1 status
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* Intel test report shared, many issues reported but no critical/showstopper
  issue:
  https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-October/189618.html

* Red Hat sent a test report, all looks good
  https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-October/189872.html


Subtrees
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* main
  * Thomas was busy with mbuf patchset, please review
    * https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=13454
    * https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=13416
  * Power patchset eal part can be merged to enable DLB eventdev drivers
    * The ethdev patch requires new version with more documentation
      * Ferruh & Jerin will try to review the ethdev patch
  * fibs patchset merged
  * Working on
    * Ring series from Honnappa
    * replace blacklist/whitelist with allow/block from Stephen
  * There is a makefile for the kmods repo, please review
    * https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/79999/
  * There is a GSO API behavior change without deprecation notice
    * https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/82163/
    * Requires techboard approval
  * There is a patch to add MMIO support to PIO map
    * Can it be handled in virtio level? more review please
    * https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=13220

* next-net
  * Andrew was covering next-net for past a few days
  * Will get ethdev patch to remove legacy filter support
    * https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=13207&state=*
      * There is a dependency to tep-term example removal
        * https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/82169/
    * https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=13211&state=*
  * Will pull from all sub-trees

* next-crypto
  * Merged most of the patches, 7-8 left
  * enqueue & dequeue callback functions series from Intel remaining
    * Was suspicions that it can be ABI break
    * Will ask for new version
    * Planning to merge if there is not objection

* next-eventdev
  * Waiting new version for DLB PMDs
    * eal libraries may be merged very soon, if so new version can be done
      as rebased on top of it
    * Need the new version soon (today/tomorrow), to be able to review and
      merge it for the -rc2

* next-virtio
  * Pull request sent for -rc2
  * No more patch expected for -rc2

* next-net-intel
  * Some patches already merged and waiting for pull

* next-net-mlx
  * There can be more features for -rc2
  * Some patches already merged and waiting for pull

* next-net-mrvl
  * There will be two more patches for -rc2, they will be processed soon

* next-net-brcm
  * Some patches already merged and waiting for pull



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