[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 31/01/2018

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Thu Jan 31 17:32:25 CET 2019


Minutes 31 January 2018
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* 19.02 RC4 status
* 19.02 release
* Subtrees
* OvS


Participants:
* Intel
* Mellanox
* NXP
* RedHat


Release Dates
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* v19.02 dates:
  * RC4 released on Monday, January 28
  * Release: Friday, February 1, 2019

* v19.05 dates:
  * Proposal Deadline: Friday, 1 March
  * RC1: Friday, 29 March
  * Release: Friday, 10 May

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

  * Contributors please provide 19.05 roadmap whenever available
    * Intel & Mellanox working on sending one soon. RedHat? NXP? Marvel? others?


19.02 RC4 status
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* Both Intel & Mlx test result looks good


19.02 release
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* 19.02 is planned for this Friday (tomorrow)!
* Nothing major/critical expected


Subtrees
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* main
  * There will be documentation updates
    * Need to finalize deprecation notices for next release
    * John will work on release notes to today/tomorrow
  * A build fix merged

* next-net
  * No new patch on the tree
  * There are a few renaming patches target next release

* next-virtio
  * No new patch on the tree
  * An existing vhost deadlock patch under review, target next release

* next-crypto
 * No new patch on the tree

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

* Stable trees
  * v18.08.1-rc3 is ready for testing, thanks to Kevin
  * Stable tree RC waiting for test, anyone from community welcome to test them
    send a test report or even a quick note to mail list:
    * LTS: v16.11.9-rc2
    * LTS: v17.11.5-rc2
    * Stable: v18.08.1-rc3
  * Reminder, each stable managed as a branch on stable git tree:
    https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/
  * Discussed sending a survey to community about stable tree usage (not LTS)


OvS
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* In progress, no issue seen on 2.11
* Release ~3 weeks later
* '--socket-limit' & '--legacy-mem' work on master will be backported to the
  2.11 release


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.


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