Minutes 30 May 2019
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* OvS
* Conferences
* Opens
Participants:
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Mellanox
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v19.08 dates:
* Proposal/V1 Monday 03 June 2019
* Integration/Merge/RC1 Monday 01 July 2019
* Release Thurs 01 August 2019
* Reminder to send roadmaps for the release, it helps planning
* Intel and Arm already shared the roadmap
* Marvell will have new PMDs and will provide a roadmap
* v19.11 proposed dates, *please comment*,
* Proposal/V1 Friday 06 September 2019
* Integration/Merge/RC1 Friday 11 October 2019
* Release Friday 08 November 2019
* Constrains:
* PRC holidays on October 1-7 inclusive, rc1 shouldn't overlap with it
* US DPDK Summit on mid November, better to have release before summit
Subtrees
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* main
* Nothing critical, weekly merge done, pulled from sub-trees
* rte_ prefix patchset in master, may affect existing patches
* KNI ethtool removal merged
* meson fix by Bruce to fix daily Intel builds is waiting
* next-net
* Merging patches, nothing critical
* Two new PMDs submitted for this release, memif & hinic
* next-eventdev
* Nothing merged yet for 19.08
* next-virtio
* next-crypto
* next-pipeline
* next-qos
* no update received
* Stable trees
* v18.11.2-rc1 is waiting for test
* 11 June is the target release day
* Red Hat and OvS (Ian) tested it
* Waiting test from others like Intel & Mellanox etc..
* Next week is only full week before target release date
* Microsoft will test when possible
OvS
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* 18.11.2-rc1 validation has been completed
* There is an OvS patch available to use af_xdp PMD, via 19.08.0-rc0
Conferences
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* DPDK Userspace summit: DPDK Userspace ยท Sept. 19-20, 2019
https://www.dpdk.org/event/dpdk-userspace-bordeaux/
* CFP Opens: Monday, April 29
* CFP Closes: Friday, May 31
* Reminder that CFP closes tomorrow
* US summit dates are not fixed yet
Opens
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* There is a potential that 19.11 will be big, need to think about ways to
reduce the risk of delay for the release
* New tool, public-inbox mail archive is enabled:
*
http://inbox.dpdk.org/announce/db6pr0501mb2167b67f9f92f45a8823c1a5d7...@db6pr0501mb2167.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com/
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 Thursdays at 8:30 UTC. If you wish to attend just
send an email to "John McNamara <john.mcnam...@intel.com>" for the invite.
