[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 21/11/2019

[Ferruh Yigit]

Minutes 21 November 2019
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* RC3 Status
* Subtrees
* OvS
* Opens

Participants:
* Arm
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Mellanox
* NXP
* Red Hat


Release Dates
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* v19.11 dates:
  * RC3	is released on Wednesday 20 November
    * https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2019-November/000302.html
  * RC4				Tuesday 26 November
  * Release			Wednesday 27 November

* Dates for 20.02 :
  * Proposal/V1:		Friday 6 December 2019
  * Integration/Merge/RC1:	Wednesday 15 January 2020
  * Release:			Friday 14 February 2020


RC3 Status
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* Intel validation not reported any critical issue
  Only one Windows build issue and driver issue reported


Subtrees
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* main
  * Mostly good
  * Tooling for ABI checks will be reviewed
  * Need to get documentation patches after this point
  * Windows patches in backlog deferred to next release
  * WFE can spend more time to become more generic

* next-net
  * No big backlog, will get fixes after rc3 phase
  * There are ethdev deprecation notices waiting for review

* next-net-crypto
  * What to do with armv8 crypto PMD in this release needs to be clarified.

* next-net-eventdev
  * There will be a set of patches after rc3, Jerin will send pull request

* next-net-virtio
  * No more patch planned for release, except fixes
  * There is one in backlog will be directly merged to next-net

* next-net-intel
  * Already merged some fixes after rc3, more to come
  * Only fixes will be merged after this point

* next-net-mlx
  * Expecting more bug fixes after rc3

* LTS
  * CVE related releases done last week
    * https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2019-November/000300.html
  * Release announcements
    19.08.2: https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2019-November/000299.html
    18.11.5: https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2019-November/000298.html
    16.11.11: https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2019-November/000297.html
    17.11.9: https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2019-November/000296.html


OvS
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* 2.13 integration validating DPDK19.11-rc3
  There are some regressions under investigation
* Discussing to more to 19.11 in next release or not
  Good to get more DPDK19.11 testing from other vendors



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.