[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 3/12/2020
oulijun
oulijun at huawei.com
Mon Dec 7 15:48:44 CET 2020
在 2020/12/7 21:59, Ferruh Yigit 写道:
> On 12/7/2020 1:03 PM, oulijun wrote:
>>
>>
>> 在 2020/12/7 20:31, Ferruh Yigit 写道:
>>> On 12/7/2020 11:54 AM, oulijun wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 在 2020/12/3 19:51, Ferruh Yigit 写道:
>>>>> Meeting minutes of 3 December 2020
>>>>> ----------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> Agenda:
>>>>> * Release Dates
>>>>> * 20.11 retrospective
>>>>> * LTS
>>>>> * OvS
>>>>> * Opens
>>>>>
>>>>> Participants:
>>>>> * Arm
>>>>> * Debian/Microsoft
>>>>> * Intel
>>>>> * Nvidia
>>>>> * NXP
>>>>> * Red Hat
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Release Dates
>>>>> -------------
>>>>>
>>>>> * v20.11 is released on Friday, 27 November 2020
>>>>> * https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-November/193684.html
>>>>> * https://core.dpdk.org/download/
>>>>> * https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.html
>>>>>
>>>>> * This was the biggest ever DPDK release, thanks to everyone who
>>>>> contributed.
>>>>>
>>>>> * v21.02 dates
>>>>> * Proposal/V1: Sunday, 20 December 2020
>>>>> * -rc1: Friday, 15 January 2021
>>>>> * Release: Friday, 5 February 2021
>>>>>
>>>>> * Please send roadmaps, preferably before beginning of the release
>>>>> * Thanks to NTT for sending roadmap
>>>>>
>>>> Hi, Ferruh Yigit
>>>> We plan to send the roadmap, but we're not sure what it requires?
>>>> Is it per vendor or per PMD vendor? What should he contain?
>>>>
>>>
>>> There is no strict formatting for it, the intention is to document
>>> the work planned for the coming release, it is sent per vendor
>>> mostly. Following are the past a few ones you can check as samples:
>>>
>>> arm:
>>> http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/DBAPR08MB58147BA5F6A1D90B702592C498240@DBAPR08MB5814.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com/
>>>
>>> broadcom:
>>> http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/CACZ4nhvDnB49YK_4SMH=BDAoRntgXxyW4kjpcpdqwHuGpwwOGg@mail.gmail.com/
>>>
>>> nvidia:
>>> http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/DM5PR12MB2406E0A8CC7C6E884B770B02CD560@DM5PR12MB2406.namprd12.prod.outlook.com/
>>>
>>> marvell:
>>> http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/BYAPR18MB2424F954434930AEF34CBD0AC8590@BYAPR18MB2424.namprd18.prod.outlook.com/
>>>
>>> intel:
>>> http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20200612135804.3781756-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Hi,
>> Firstly, thank you for your response. As a new PMD developer and
>> maintainer, I am probably understand.
>> In addition, I would like to know that if we do not develop and
>> push our features in a timely manner according to the roadmap, this
>> will not affect you and others, or we develop and push redundant
>> features in the roadmap.
>>
>
> The note at the beginning of the roadmap page is to answer this :)
> https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/
>
> "This is not a commitment but plan of work."
>
> The roadmap is to announce tasks under development, so enables
> interested parties to collaborate.
> Also helps to roughly seize the size of the release and workload, to
> help planning.
>
> So not able to develop an announced feature is not a problem, but in
> other way around to not announce a feature in the roadmap but try to
> upstream it may cause that feature get less priority.
>
>
I see. thanks.
>> Thanks
>> Lijun Ou
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Lijun Ou
>>>>>
>>>>> 20.11 retrospective
>>>>> -------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> (I tried to summarize as best as I can, please free to correct/add
>>>>> when needed)
>>>>>
>>>>> * What went well
>>>>> * Managed to get out this very big release on time
>>>>> * Was more precise with dates
>>>>> * Expectations on features were more clear in this release
>>>>> * Good co-working between maintainers
>>>>> * Communication was better, project become more resilient
>>>>> * Akhil commented last minute stress was less
>>>>> * Major gcc distribution didn't cause disruption this time
>>>>> * LTS is doing good job overall
>>>>> * Thanks to Luca and Kevin for their work there
>>>>>
>>>>> * Things to improve
>>>>> * next-net is busy, %60+ of the commits coming from next-net,
>>>>> would be good to get more help, options to improve
>>>>> * Add a co-maintainer in that level
>>>>> * Andrew (backup maintainer) is great candidate if he can
>>>>> spare time
>>>>> He is already helping on reviews
>>>>> * He already covered during release when Ferruh is on holiday
>>>>> * Testpmd maintainership is not working fine, find maintainers
>>>>> for it
>>>>> * Should we add more vendor trees?
>>>>> * Huawei is contributing more, should it have a vendor
>>>>> sub-tree?
>>>>> * Huawei is being good citizen mostly
>>>>> * CI can be improved
>>>>> * Top level Thomas/David may felt the last minute stress more
>>>>> this time
>>>>> * Pachwork update by Jerin, to add reviewer column may help
>>>>> * This seems not exactly matching patchwork intention of
>>>>> using delegate
>>>>> field
>>>>> * Need to work on how to upstream this improvement
>>>>> * It is causing more problem when expectation is not clear
>>>>> from vendors
>>>>> * Security issues
>>>>> * They didn't work very well, the busy release is affecting it
>>>>> * Good thing is there is a well defined process, needs
>>>>> resource to execute
>>>>> * Can help to allocate separate resource for it
>>>>> * A technical project manager can do it, doesn't have to
>>>>> be developer
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> LTS
>>>>> ---
>>>>>
>>>>> * v19.11.6-rc1 is out, please test
>>>>> *
>>>>> http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20201203093856.299103-1-luca.boccassi@gmail.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> * Target release date is 17 December
>>>>>
>>>>> * v18.11.10 work is going on
>>>>> * waiting for backports, request emails sent
>>>>> * -rc1 is planned before holidays
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> OvS
>>>>> ---
>>>>>
>>>>> * Second version of patch to switch DPDK 20.11 is sent, please review
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Opens
>>>>> -----
>>>>>
>>>>> * Asaf shared a draft release process documentation
>>>>> * It will be sent as documentation patch for community review,
>>>>> after initial review
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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 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.mcnamara at intel.com>" for the invite.
>>>>> .
>>>>>
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