[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 3/09/2020

[Ferruh Yigit]

Meeting minutes of 3 September 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* LTS
* Conferences
* Opens

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


Release Dates
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* v20.11 dates
  * Proposal/V1:    Friday, 11 September 2020
  * -rc1:           Friday, 9 October 2020
  * -rc2:           Friday, 23 October 2020
  * Release:        Friday, 13 November 2020

  * Nvidia Mellanox, Marvell & Broadcom already sent roadmap, all contributors
    please send roadmap for the release.


Subtrees
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* main
  * There are multiple deprecation notice to close
    * Make deprecation is high priority, it may affect many
      * There is a CI affect needs to be handled
    * python2 deprecation is good to have for release, but not urgent for now
    * there are multiple ethdev changes planned, some are still missing
      * Some ethdev ABI break in the mail list without deprecation notice
    * removing enum MAX values, still not sent a patch
    * moving kernel modules to new repo is waiting
      * it can be good to move the git history too, if it is easy to do
  * We may need to prioritize the features for the release
    * To be sure some high priority features addressed for the release	

* next-net
  * ~200 patches
  * Some merged and has pulled from some subtrees
  * Ethdev from previous releases are still open
  * One new PMD: txgbe

* next-crypto
  * Will start working next week
    * There is no backup maintainer for crypto tree, good to have one
  * Requesting from community to review the patches and support
  * There are multiple new PMDs

* next-eventdev
  * DLB driver is waiting for v2, which will come soon

* next-virtio
  * There are three major patchset
    * vhost add vectorized data path
    * Virtio vDPA driver
    * vhost new featres
  * Rest are fixes or small improvements

* next-net-mlx, next-net-intel, next-net-brcm
  * Some patches merged and pulled by next-net

* next-net-mrvl
  * There are some patches, planning to merge next week


LTS
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* 18.11.10
  * Backporting going on
  * -rc1 planned for Monday

* v19.11.4-rc1 is out, please test
  * http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20200818181222.8462-1-bluca@debian.org/T/#u
  * Canonical, Red Hat, Intel, OvS, Nvidia & Microsoft sent test reports.
  * Release postponed based on some issues reported by validation


Conferences
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* DPDK Userspace summit 2020 is on September 22 & 23, schedule is online:
  https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-userspace-summit/program/schedule/
  * Two days, overall 6 hours (2x3) of talks
  * No break between talks


Opens
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* Ajit shared the defect backlog in the Bugzilla
  * There are some unassigned defects, because of maintainer is not registered
    to Bugzilla, not possible to assign them.
    * Please all maintainers of the project register to Bugzilla
      https://bugs.dpdk.org/
  * Copy/Paste from Ajit's notes:
    * We have 147 open bugs in UNCONFIRMED/CONFIRMED/IN_PROCRESS state.
      * 45 of them are unassigned (assigned to 'dev at dpdk.org' by default)



DPDK Release Status Meetings
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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.