Release status meeting minutes {Date}
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:Date: 11 March 2021
:toc:
.Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* LTS
* Conferences
* Opens
.Participants:
* Arm
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* `v21.05` dates
- Proposal/V1: Thursday, 18 March
- -rc1: Thursday, 15 April
- Release: Friday, 14 May
* Please send roadmaps, preferably before beginning of the release
- Thanks to `Marvell`, `Huawei hns3`, `Nvidia`, `Wangxun` and `Intel` for
sending roadmap
Subtrees
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* main
- For Alibaba's PIO patchset better to do more test
** Intel verification looks good
- Thomas is doing some clean up patches, more to come
- Will do an early pull from next-net
* next-net
- Progressing, nothing critical
- Not observed the peak for the release yet
- Pulled from vendor sub-trees
** waiting brcm tree for small changes
** Pulling from sub-trees less frequently, to reduce the overhead
Planning to have weekly pulls, on Wednesdays
- There is a new set of octeontx3 drivers, net driver with common
driver dependency
** New drivers will go from mrvl tree to main repo directly
*** Jerin will manage branches, one for to be pulled from main repo
other is to be pulled from next-net
* next-crypto
- Not much update
- Will review/merge some apps and drivers this week
* next-eventdev
- Some patches merged, some more to go
- Will prepare a pull request when all merged
* next-virtio
- Two series remaining from the previous release
- Two new feature added to backlog for this release
* next-net-brcm
- Waiting update for existing set
* next-net-intel
- Some base file updates and raw/ifpga merged
- More in the backlog
* next-net-mlx
- A fix in the tree pulled to next-net
- More patches expected before v1 deadline
* next-net-mrvl
- A few patches merged and pulled by next-net
LTS
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* `v19.11.7-rc2` is out, please test
-
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20210310133709.562846-1-christian.ehrha...@canonical.com/
- Intel reported and fixed some issues, -rc2 released with fixes
- New planned release date is March 17
* `v20.11.1` is released
- http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20210308181351.409609-1-luca.bocca...@gmail.com/
Conferences
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* DPDK APAC 2021 event is approaching, it is on 22-23 March
- https://www.dpdk.org/event/dpdk-summit-apac-2021/
- https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-summit-apac/
Opens
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* John is evaluating lgtm.com
- https://lgtm.com/projects/g/DPDK/dpdk/?mode=list
* Is there anyone did code review on github, please reach out for BKMs or for
experience sharing
.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.
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