Meeting minutes of 26 November 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* -rc5 status
* Subtrees
* LTS
* OvS
Participants:
* Arm
* Broadcom
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v20.11 dates
* -rc5 is released on Sunday, 22 November 2020
* http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/2457559.JHJOnYWPqN@thomas/
* Release pushed to *Friday, 27 November 2020*
* v21.02 dates
* Proposal/V1: Sunday, 20 December 2020
* -rc1: Friday, 15 January 2021
* Release: Friday, 5 February 2021
* Please send roadmaps, preferably before beginning of the release
* Thanks to NTT for sending roadmap
-rc5 status
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* Ping (form Intel) sent the test repot
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-November/193445.html
* ... no new critical issue blocked the release is found.
* Red Hat testing looks good
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-November/193416.html
* OvS, 'dpdk-latest' branch, tested with latest DPDK, looks good
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-November/193509.html
Subtrees
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* main
* CI
* Travis policy for open source projects changed, free slots only
to open source projects without budget
* We are out of credit to run more test
* Need to discuss should we pay for it
* Currently the budget is used for the UNH lab
* There is a patch to use github actions
* Looking to the documentation patches
* There are lots of them to review
* David will create a list of patches waiting for review
* Please support doc reviews
* Waiting for v2 of dpdk-setup patchset with doc updates
* Waiting for 21.02 roadmaps
* Asaf will put a draft discussion on managing the releases
* next-net
* no update on tree after -rc5
* next-crypto
* no update
* next-eventdev
* no update
* next-virtio
* Done for the release
* next-net-intel
* no update after -rc5
* an iavf patch went directly into main not acked by maintainers
* next-net-mlx
* All good, a few patches went into main directly
* next-net-mrvl
* no update
* next-net-brcm
* no update
LTS
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* Next 18.11 release will be 18.11.11
* Estimated release date is mid January
* Next 19.11 release will be 19.11.6
* Expecting a release candidate next week
* Released tentatively planned for mid December
* Based on test completion dates and results
* 20.11 LTS
* Thanks to Kevin volunteered as 20.11 LTS maintainer
* Kevin will send a roadmap update to document this
OvS
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* Validated latest DPDK and all looks good
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.
