[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 17/01/2018

[Ferruh Yigit]

Minutes 17 January 2018
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* RC3 deadline
* Subtrees
* Bugzilla
* OvS


Participants:
* Debian
* Intel
* Mellanox
* NXP
* RedHat


Release Dates
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* v19.02 dates:
  * RC2 released on Monday, January 14
  * RC3 planned on Friday, January 18
  * RC4 planned on Friday, January 25
  * Release: Friday, February 1, 2019

  * Roadmap page: http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates

* v19.05 proposal:
  * v19.05 is approaching and it is expected to be a big release,
    we can start discussing dates based on following proposal:

  * Proposal Deadline: Friday, 1 March
  * RC1: Friday, 29 March
  * Release: Friday, 10 May
  * 8 weeks prev release to rc1, 6 weeks rc1 to release

  * Some historical data from 17.05 & 18.05 appended to the bottom
    to help discussion [1]

  * Contributors please provide 19.05 roadmap whenever available


RC3 deadline
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* RC3 is planned this Friday (tomorrow)!
* There will be small number of changes, nothing major.


Subtrees
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* main
  * Not many patches are waiting (< 20)
  * Ferruh will help reviewing Intel FPGA bus patches

* next-net
  * Only a few patches merged, will be ready for Friday
  * Pulled from next-net-intel & next-net-mlx
  * Will pull from next-net-virtio today

* next-virtio
  * There will be patches for rc3, will be ready today

* next-crypto
 * There are some patches waiting for merge
 * Compress unit tests are waiting
 * Akhil will not able to available for some time
   * Thomas will get patches, Pablo will support on reviews

* next-eventdev
* next-pipeline
* next-qos
  * No update, we need attendance from maintainers

* Stable trees
  * No stable release has been released after v18.11,
    v16.11.9, v17.11.5, v18.11.1, v18.08.1, all are waiting. Some released rc
    but waiting for testing
  * Will discuss with Qian (Intel test team lead) the stable tree testing plan
  * If testing blocked we need to find a way as community to unblock stable
    releases


Bugzilla
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* Intel is pulling defects from Bugzilla
* Still overall defect number is increasing
* Should we push harder for fixes?


OvS
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* 2.11 branching pushed from Tuesday to Friday
* Port represontor support patch has been sent, new version expected
  * Ian working on verifying them with ixgbe & i40e
* Requested from DPDK to document port represontor better
  * Requested to backport this documentation update to 18.11.x


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.mcnamara at intel.com>" for the invite.




[1] Historical release dates
v17.02    : 14.02
v17.05-rc1: 06.04 (almost 8 weeks)
v17.05-rc2: 21.04 (2 weeks)
v17.05-rc3: 02.05 (2 weeks)
v17.05-rc4: 07.05 (a week)
v17.05    : 11.05 (almost a week)
8 weeks to RC1, 5 weeks to rc1 to release (overall 13 weeks)

v18.02    : 14.02
v18.05-rc1: 28.04 (almost 11 weeks)
v18.05-rc2: 02.05 (3 days)
v18.05-rc3: 15.05 (2 weeks)
v18.05-rc4: 15.05 (same day)
v18.05-rc5: 23.05 (almost a week)
v18.05-rc6: 28.05 (almost a week)
v18.05    : 30.05 (2 days)
11 weeks to rc1, 5 weeks rc1 to release (overall 16 weeks)