Meeting minutes of 28 January 2021
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* -rc1 status
* Subtrees
* LTS
Participants:
* Arm
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v21.02 dates
* -rc2 Friday, 29 January 2021
* -rc3 pulled to *Thursday, 4 February 2021*
* Release pulled to *Friday, 12 February 2021*
* Release date adjusted because of the conflict with Chinese New Year, target
is to finalize the release before the Chinese New Year holiday starts.
-rc1 status
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* Intel sent test results, validation completed, no critical issue:
* http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/ddcde5a760f94e7eb708d508e50e2...@intel.com/
Subtrees
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* main
* Bruce's 'buildtools/chkincs' series to check includes
* Arm's ring refactoring set
* There are lots of patches related to the build system
* A pmdinfogen error reported
* More detail needed
* Arm build options rework
* Power library changes
* Hoping to get today
* Mingw build error
* There is a new version for the fix
* next-net
* Progressing, sub-trees pulled, some fixes merged
* Target is to close the -rc2 tomorrow but there are still ~90 patches in the
backlog
* Some driver patches may not make the -rc2, first come first served
* There are testpmd fixes, please help on reviewing them
* octeontx_ep waiting for new version
* If main patchset can go in -rc2, adjustments can be done for -rc3, since
it is a new driver it should be OK, this gives an additional week
* intel raw/ifpga driver is in the backlog
* next-crypto
* no update
* next-eventdev
* Sent pull request
* next-virtio
* Patches merged for -rc2
* Recent virtio defect with -rc1 should be fixed now
* Can consider pulling next-net early to main repo to verify the fix
* Alibaba MMIO patch reviewed
* Alibaba is working on the set for some releases now, deferring it won't
be good
* next-net-mlx
* Two more patches for -rc2, will be ready soon
* next-net-brcm
* no update
* next-net-intel
* no update
* next-net-mrvl
* all merged for -rc2
LTS
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* v19.11.7
* Christian Ehrhardt will take over the 19.11 maintainership
* v20.11.x
* Luca will take over the 20.11 maintainership from Kevin in long term
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.
