Minutes 9 July 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* LTS
* OvS
* Opens
Participants:
* Arm
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* NXP
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v20.08 dates:
* -rc1 pushed to *Sunday, 12 July 2020*
* -rc2: Monday, 20 July 2020
* Release: Tuesday, 4 August 2020
* v20.11 proposal dates, please comment:
* Proposal/V1: Wednesday, 2 September 2020
* -rc1: Wednesday, 30 September 2020
* -rc2: Friday, 16 October 2020
* Release: Friday, 6 November 2020
* Please remember to send roadmap for 20.11.
Subtrees
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* main
* There is priority PCI issue, patch is waiting more review
* https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/73521/
* Following are in the backlog
* RCU series
* Ring cleanup
* C11 atomics
* FIB / hash change from Vladimir
* Thomas will check today
* Ethdev patches
* If-proxy
* Can be considered for -rc2, needs review
* It is hard to make big changes as community
* Needs more specific review comments to work/fix
* There is no time for preparing the spec
* The review and time is general problem for generic features
* Patches for -rc2
* Regex PMD
* ethdev PMD updates
* A few patches for crypto
* Not much patches planned for -rc2, can keep the -rc2 date for now
* next-net
* Pulled from vendor sub-trees
* virtio, bnxt & nxp patches merged
* There are still ethdev patches pending in backlog
* Ethdev patches not reviewed/ready end of this week can miss the release
* More patches expected after -rc1 from mainly vendor trees
* next-crypto
* Read for -rc1, pulled yesterday
* There can be a few driver patches for -rc2
* next-eventdev
* Read for -rc1, pulled
* Some doc patches for after -rc1
* next-virtio
* Chenbo is managing the virtio patches during Maxime's absence
* Ready for -rc1
* One set postponed to next release, rest merged
* next-net-intel
* Pulled for -rc1
* More patches expected for -rc2
* next-net-mlx
* Some more patches expected for -rc1
* Can be ready today but not blocker for -rc1
* next-net-mrvl
* pulled for -rc1
* Some qede patches are in the backlog
LTS
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* v18.11.9-rc2 is out, please test
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-June/171690.html
* Testing issues resolved
* The release is planned for this week
OvS
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* 2.14 soft freeze passed, it was 1 July, feature freeze is approaching
Opens
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* Please check Bugzilla for bugs assigned to you
* https://bugs.dpdk.org/
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.
