Minutes 1 November 2018 ----------------------- Agenda: * Dates * RC1 status * Subtrees * Bugzilla * OvS * Conferences * Opens
Participants: * Broadcom * Debian * Intel * Mellanox Release Dates ------------- * RC1 was out on Monday, 29 October. * RC2 date *pushed out* to *Monday, 5 November 2018* * Release date is *Tuesday, 20 November 2018* * 19.02 dates discussion on mail list: https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-October/116345.html Proposed dates copy-paste from above thread: * Proposal deadline Friday 23 November 2018 * Merge deadline Friday 14 December 2018 * RC1 release Friday 21 December 2018 * RCx + Testing Friday 25 January 2019 * Release Friday 1 February 2019 RC1 status ---------- * Some blocking issues from IOVA raised by system test * https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100, 101, 102, 103 * These issues are preventing a full System Test validation for Intel * Alejandro sent a patch, he noted he will send a new version https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=2189 Waiting for new version * Anatoly is reviewing, more review and testing is required * Bonding segmentation fault * Patch sent and acked: https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/47621/ * Some KNI fails * Because of new patches, testcases and docs needs to be updated * Ferruh will send doc patches Subtrees -------- * main * Following patches are planned for RC2: * C11 atomics in Ring Library * Needs more reviews - particularly from Intel * Unit test patches require more review * FIPs testing tool * Compression performance testing tool * May slip to next release if can't make on time * Rework on L2FWD * not much comments, probably will miss the release * next-net * No new features are planned for RC2 * Merged some patches from mlx and virtio subtrees, there will be more * Around 20 patches are waiting but more expected with RC1 testing * next-crypto * Preparing a pull request for Friday * next-virtio * Preparing a pull request for Friday * There will be some vhost_crpto fixes from Fan Zhang * packed virtqueues won't able to make the RC2 * next-eventdev * next-pipeline * next-qos * Bugzilla -------- * New issues around IOVA, Bugs 100-103 inclusive OvS --- * Getting close moving development branch 'dpdk_latest' to 18.08 * Will probably try to integrate 18.11 RC2 * Ophir's patch for RSS key is required [to mlx5] * Thomas preparing patch to remove experimental tag form some APIS for OvS * https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=2210 DPDK Conference --------------- * There will be a talk review this week for DPDK North America summit Opens ----- * Release status meeting is an important forum for coordinating DPDK releases. All major contributors to DPDK should have a representative at the meeting DPDK Release Status Meetings ============================ 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 me and email and I will send you the invite.
