Minutes 16 January 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* OvS
Participants:
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Mellanox
* NXP
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v20.02 dates:
* Integration deadline passed, it was on Wednesday 15 January 2020
* RC1 is expected before the weekend, possibly on Friday 17 January
* PRC holidays on 24-20 Jan (inclusive)
* Release: Friday 14 February 2020
* v20.05 proposal:
* Proposal/V1: Friday 6 March 2020
* Integration/Merge/RC1: Friday 10 April 2020
* Release: Friday 1 May || Wed 13 May
* 1-5 May holiday on PRC, we need to do the release before or after that
Please comment on between 1 May or 13 May.
Subtrees
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* main
* Will try to do -rc1 before Monday with best effort
* Two series from arm
* "ring library" updates
* May go in in this release
* Use WFE for aarch64
* ABI tooling patches
* Tech-board selected David's approach
* Automated checks will be in CI after David's patch
* We need automated checks to be sure we are not breaking the ABI
otherwise it is not always easy for developer to catch the break
* Waiting new version of Neil's __rte_internal pathcset
* next-net
* Almost all ethdev changes merged, planning to finalize last
remaining 1-2 ones today
* All sub-trees pulled except some mlx and brcm one that are waiting fix
* Some PMD patches may be postponed to -rc2
* next-net-crypto
* Pull request sent
* There is a performance concern on some ipsec-gw patches,
they can go in -rc2 if the issue is solved
* CPU crypto from last release may be breaking ABI, need to confirm
and discussed dummy variable is missing, may be postponed to next release
* Some PMD changes are postponed to -rc2
* next-net-eventdev
* Pull request sent, it is a small set
* next-net-virtio
* All commit pulled to next-net
* virtio vDPA drive will be postponed to next release
* Some patches waiting user change and some are under review
* Can be some more patches for -rc2
* next-net-intel
* Nothing critical, most of the patches have been pulled
* 'fm10k' patches are not reviewed, may go in -rc2 if reviewed
otherwise will be postponed to next release
* LTS
* 17.11.10-rc1 released, please test and report results
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-January/154915.html
* Release planned on January / February
* 18.11.6-rc2 released, please test and report results
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-January/155132.html
* Only a few patches on top of -rc1
* Intel will plan a validation, it won't be full validation
* Release planned on 31st January
OvS
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* Using DPDK experimental APIs discussed, it is accepted to use once as
exception, so feature won't be blocked
* DPDK need to figure out how to backport removing experimental tags to the
LTS releases
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.
