[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 31/05/2018

Mcnamara, John john.mcnamara at intel.com
Thu May 31 19:18:13 CEST 2018


Minutes from the weekly DPDK Release Status Meeting.

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 me and email and I will send you the invite.


Minutes 31 May 2018

Agenda:

* DPDK 18.05 release.
* Retrospective on 18.05.
* Testing of stable releases.

Participants:

* Intel
* Cavium
* Mellanox
* NXP
* 6Wind
* RedHat


DPDK 18.05 release.

* DPDK 18.08 "The Venky Release" is out. \o/
* Thanks to all the maintainers and contributors.
* See the release notes for the full stats:
  http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/announce/2018-May/000204.html


Retrospective on 18.05.

* What went well.

  * Largest DPDK release ever.
  * Lots of contributors from all the main companies involved in networking.
  * Collaboration on major features between companies in the community.

* What didn't go so well.

  * The release was very late and required a lot of release candidates.
  * RC1 was late and low quality.
  * Many major defects found in RC testing.
  * Some reviews were slow or late.

* What can we do differently next time.

  * Should we change the number of releases per year from 4 to 3 or 2?
  * Merge earlier from subtrees: every 7-10 days.
  * Push patches earlier.
  * Review patches more critically. Does every feature/patch need to go in.
  * Use unit tests more
    * Make them a requirement for any sizeable code.
    * Make them easier to write/use/run.
    * Add a make/meson target for generating coverage results from units
      tests. Any volunteers?
  * Hold more strictly to the release milestone dates.


Testing of stable releases.

* Luca Boccassi asked about testing of the stable release.
* All major contributing companies should confirm test results on the stable
  releases.
* Luca will send an email to the list about it:
  http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-May/103249.html



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