Minutes 30 July 2020 -------------------- Agenda: * Release Dates * -rc2 status * Subtrees * LTS * Opens
Participants: * Arm * Broadcom * Debian/Microsoft * Intel * Marvell * Nvidia * NXP * Red Hat Release Dates ------------- * v20.08 dates: * -rc3 pushed to *Thursday, 30 July 2020* * -rc4: Wednesday, 5 August 2020 * Release Friday, 7 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. -rc2 status ----------- * Intel finished testing, mostly good except two critical defects * A driver TSO issue, fix merged * vhost performance drop * Maxime's patch verified, will be merged for -rc3 * Interrupt issue will be worked in next release Subtrees -------- * main * Worrying that there is no more fixes for libraries * Will close the -rc3 today * More review required for examples, please help * https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?q=example * -rc4 will be for documentation patches * Need to finalize the deprecation notices * Please check the ABI improvements for 20.11, and send required deprecation notices. * There are already lots of deprecation notice for 20.11 It is worrying that 20.11 will be too big * Data hiding and struct splitting already planned for ethdev Same can be applied for other device abstraction layers, Please check and send deprecation notices. * John will be back next week, may support for final doc reviews * There is a public holiday on Monday in Ireland * Please all maintainers cleanup the patchwork before release * next-net * Pulled from vendor sub-trees and some fixes merged * There is a last minute bnxt patch, will check for -rc3 * No more patches expected for release * next-crypto * Pull request merged * There are deprecation notices in backlog * next-eventdev * Pull request merged * There can be a few critical patches for -rc3 * May send another pull request, will close today * next-virtio * Performance fix and some other fixes merged * Pulled by next-net, no more patch expected for release * next-net-mlx, next-net-intel * Pulled for -rc3 * next-net-mrvl * Qede patches postponed to next release * No more patch expected for release * next-net-brcm * There is a patchset merged in sub-tree * Ajit will check if they are fixes or can be postponed LTS --- * 19.11.4 work is going on * Some patches are backported, email sent, please review * 18.11.10 work is going on * Some patches are backported Opens ----- * Bugzilla * Nothing critical for the release * Three new defects to Intel, some are to old releases * There are open defects needs attention * Intel pulled some defects to internal to address them * No visible change in the Bugzilla 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 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.