Release status meeting minutes {Date}
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:Date: 20 May 2021
:toc:
.Agenda:
* Release Dates
* -rc3/4 status
* Subtrees
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens
.Participants:
* Arm
* Broadcom
* Canonical
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* `v21.05` dates
- -rc4 is released on Wednesday, 19 May
** http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/1994252.qWktbAlWXN@thomas/
- Release: Friday, 21 May
* `v21.08` dates
- Proposal/V1: Wednesday, 2 June
- -rc1: Monday, 5 July
- Release: Tuesday, 3 August
* *Please send roadmaps*, preferably before beginning of the release
* Expecting a small `v21.08` release.
rc3/4 status
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* -rc3 test results
- Intel, IBM, Nvidia & Broadcom shared the -rc3 test results, nothing critical
** http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/7142607.3L8AUzOtay@thomas/t/#u
* The -rc4 is new, no test reports yet.
* Good to get more test results, please share the test reports
Subtrees
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* main
- More tooling and doc patches in the backlog
** John will help on finalizing release notes
- Testing latest DPDK with OvS & SPDK, looks good
- There are four deprecation notices needs to be closed today, please review
** vdpa:
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20210518073441.2749096-1-tho...@monjalon.net/
** crypto:
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20210414201544.1063413-1-tho...@monjalon.net/
** Windows:
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20210310235421.23259-1-dmitry.kozl...@gmail.com/
** net:
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20210303225121.16146-1-dmitry.kozl...@gmail.com/
- v21.05 supports gcc11, Kevin will add a release notes update for it
** Kevin also verified the clang 12
** Should LTS release support gcc11?
* next-net
- No patches for the release
* next-crypto
- There is a doc path from Pablo under review
- Deprecation notice patch from Thomas
** http://dpdk.org/patch/91473
* next-eventdev
- There is one fix for dlb2
** It is waiting new version, patch should be split into multiple patches
*** Internal review before upstream may help
* next-virtio
- Some regressions fixed in -rc4
- vhost crash fixed
** https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703
- No patches for the release
* next-net-brcm
- No patches for the release, maybe doc update
* next-net-intel
- No patches for the release
* next-net-mlx
- Some fixes merged, all clear for release
* next-net-mrvl
- No patches in the backlog
LTS
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* `v19.11` (next version is `v19.11.9`)
- Backport request email sent
**
http://inbox.dpdk.org/stable/bab7aa8d-fb62-332e-68a8-474ade5c2...@intel.com/
- Planning an -rc next week
* `v20.11` (next version is `v20.11.2`)
- "Xueming(Steven) Li" requested support for backporting some commits
**
http://inbox.dpdk.org/stable/28797869-b83a-fba8-5c85-8527e4107...@intel.com/
- Planning an -rc soon
* Distros
- v20.11 in Debian 11
- v20.11 in Ubuntu 21.04
Defects
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* Bugzilla links, 'Bugs', added for hosted projects
- https://www.dpdk.org/hosted-projects/
Opens
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* Cheng is working on the security issues, it is progressing
* DPDK is using IRC for community communication and we are using
https://freenode.net/
servers. There are some discussions around freenode: https://www.kline.sh/
- Will wait for two weeks to get things clarified, will discuss again later
- Maxime registered a DPDK channel in https://libera.chat/ for any case
* Coverity is running regularly
- Can we have out of cycle run for -rc4? Last run was yesterday.
- We need a way to verify coverity issues before merging it, will carry topic
to CI mail list an Aaron
* There is a new DPDK blog series, Faces of DPDK, starting with Dmitry:
- https://www.dpdk.org/news/blog/
.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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