[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 24/06/2021

[Mcnamara, John]

Release status meeting minutes {Date}
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:Date: 24 June 2021
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.Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

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


Release Dates
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* `v21.08` dates
  - Proposal/V1:    Wednesday, 2 June (completed)
  - -rc1:           Monday,    5 July
  - Release:        Tuesday,   3 August

* Note: We need to hold to the early August release date since
  several of the maintainers will be on holidays after that.

* `v21.11` dates (proposed and subject to discussion)
  - Proposal/V1:    Friday, 10 September
  - -rc1:           Friday, 15 October
  - Release:        Friday, 19 November

Subtrees
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* main
  - Unit test fixes for issues with Address Sanitizer.
  - Build issues with Solarflare patches - under investigation.
  - Some of the sub-trees already pulled as part of incremental merging prior to RC1.
  - RC1 targeted for Monday 5th July. Subtree maintainers should submit PRs on
    Wednesday 30th June to allow time for RC1 merge.

* next-net
  - Andrew working on testpmd patches for Windows - needs ack
  - Bonding patches also need reviews

* next-crypto
  - 4 new PMDs in this release:
    ** CNXK - reviewed - awaiting final version for RC1.
    ** MLX - still in progress. New version with unit tests due in next few days.
    ** Intel QAT - under review.
    ** NXP baseband - requires new version.

* next-eventdev
  - CNXK eventdev driver - should be available for RC1.
  - Baseband patches reviewed.

* next-virtio
  - 4 series from Intel around the async data - new series under review.
  - Patchset on numa reallocation under review.

* next-net-brcm
  - Big patchset with 58 patches merged into dpdk-next-net-brcm sub tree.

* next-net-intel
  - Proceeding okay. No issues

* next-net-mlx
  - Should be a small release for Mellanox
  - Waiting for PR to be pulled.

* next-net-mrvl
  - CNXK ethernet driver (from last release).
  - V4 received and under review. Should be merged next week.


LTS
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* `v19.11` (next version is `v19.11.9`)
  - RC3 tagged
  - Target release date July 2

* `v20.11` (next version is `v20.11.2`)
  - RC2 tagged

* Distros
  - v20.11 in Debian 11
  - v20.11 in Ubuntu 21.04


Defects
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* Bugzilla links, 'Bugs',  added for hosted projects
  - https://www.dpdk.org/hosted-projects/


Opens
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* None


.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.
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