Minutes 14 May 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* -rc2 status
* Subtrees
* Opens
Participants:
* Arm
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Mellanox
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v20.05 dates:
* -rc2 is released on Tuesday, 12 May
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-May/167394.html
* -rc3 Friday 18 May 2020
* -rc4 Thursday 21 May 2020
* Release pushed to *Monday 25 May 2020*
* v20.08 proposal dates, please comment:
* Proposal/V1: Tuesday, 16 June 2020
* Integration/Merge/RC1: Tuesday, 14 July 2020
* Release: Friday, 7 August 2020
* Please send roadmap for the release
-rc2 status
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* Intel sent a -rc2 test report, majority of testing completed, no critical
issue
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-May/167715.html
Subtrees
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* main
* Looking patchsets adding __rte_internal to common folder
* This is good to prevent false positives in ABI and document intention
* ABI fix for matured API not merged, discussion going on in the mail list
* OvS is using it but not critical for OvS
* Blocking some test cases
* There are couple of coverity fixes
* Some documentation
* Good time for deprecation notices
* Thomas is looking compilation patches and Makefile deprecation
* gcc10
* Akhil's fix for crypto looks good, can replace temporary solution
* Gavin has patch for mbuf, but this stage can be late/risky for complex fix
* At this stage we can go with disabling warning as temporary solution
* Ferruh is getting a warning on hash too, will share it
* We should consider python2 deprecation
* A deprecation notice already merged
* https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/65828/
* next-net
* Some patches merged and sub-trees pulled for -rc3
* HW rings allocation patch is in backlog, ethdev patch is internal and can go
in -rc3 but there a few things to clarify, not sure if it will make -rc3
* next-crypto
* No update
* next-eventdev
* No update
* next-virtio
* 4 fixes in the queue, pull request can be ready today
* Mellanox vdpa patchset postponed, it introduces new APIs
* More reviews would help
* Maxime will have less time next month, will sync with Xiaolong
* next-net-intel
* 10 fixes in backlog
* fm10k patchset postponed to next release
* next-net-mlx
* 10-15 fixes are expected
Opens
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* Bugzilla is not discussed for a while
* After issues assigned, there is not much to do for management
* It can be good to get list of critical issues offline
* Patchwork hit 70K patches, Hemant/Nipun is the winner :)
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-May/167125.html
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.
