Minutes 9 April 2020 -------------------- Agenda: * Release Dates * Highlights * Subtrees
Participants: * Arm * Intel * Marvell * Mellanox * NXP * Red Hat Release Dates ------------- * v20.05 dates: * Integration/Merge/RC1: Friday 17 April 2020 * Release: Wednesday 20 May 2020 * Marvell, Arm, Mellanox & Broadcom already sent roadmap for 20.05, all vendors please share the roadmap for the release. Highlights ---------- * CI failures (ones reported in patchwork) **We will be more strict and failing patches will be blocked** Subtrees -------- * main * crypto tree will be pulled today * There is lack of review, some patches stalled * gcc10 patches * bit operations (may be postponed to next release) * cleanup resources on shutdown * windows memory management * __rte_internal for ABI checks * high priority and not very active now, looking for volunteer * CI failures are not taken into account * Failures are ignored until maintainer points, this is not scalable * **We will be more strict and failing patches will be blocked** * If there is a false positive author should send note about it * In long term false positives will be fixed * graph library * No major blocking issue, trending to be merged in this release * There will be a new version * Thomas will review it * tracing library * Some concerns on the API, it is copy/paste of log API * Lacking more reviews * ifproxy library * Will be postponed to next release * telemetry and rawdev patches are in the backlog * next-net * Pulled from sub-trees and some patches merged * It is progressing, there are ~60 patches in backlog, nothing big * New igc PMD reviewed, waiting for changes * ABI issues with mlx PMD should be resolved before next pull * next-crypto * Test for security API and bbdev patchset are under review * next-eventdev * pull request sent, no more patches expected for -rc1 * next-virtio * There will be reviews this week * Tree was not active for a while but may prepare a pull request based on merged patches * next-net-intel * Two series merged, reviews are going on * next-net-mlx * Some series merged and pulled to next-net * next-net-mrvl * All patches merged for -rc1 * LTS * 18.11.7-rc1 is out, please test * http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20200320193403.18959-1-ktray...@redhat.com/ * RedHat, Intel & Mellanox sent test reports * Release planned for next week 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 an email to "John McNamara <john.mcnam...@intel.com>" for the invite.