Hello everyone and maintainers in particular, I wanted to use this chance for an extra call for help before we later on this year call 19.11 EOL and done. There have been a bunch of issues found in the 19.11 testing.
We have had a few extra respins of 19.11.9 this time which resolved a few of them, but others are still left. They are mostly due to new toolchains and seem not to apply to 20.11 and later. But there are also no clear fixes known to me (have not come up in the discussions and not tagged for stable@) to resolve them. I have linked to the release notes in the announcement mail, but I expect only a few will scroll through to the known issues. Due to various other responsibilities and an upcoming PTO I can't spend much time before we are back in backporting-efforts for 19.11.10. Therefore I wanted to reach out explicitly for anyone willing and able to help to have a look at those issues to maybe resolve a bunch of them in 19.11.10 later on this year. The list of known issues in 19.11.9 are: - A Build issue with clang 12.0.1 https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745 - A make build issue with Fedora 34 with GCC11 https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744 - Meson based build issues with ICC-19.1.1 https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 fails of kni build https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728 http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-June/031210.html) P.S. Thanks @David for encouraging me to bring it up here. P.P.S. I've submitted this to everyone listed in the current Maintainers file, sorry if that hits a few people more than needed, but better that way than being missed. -- Christian Ehrhardt Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd
