[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 26/07/2018

[Mcnamara, John]

DPDK Release Status Meeting 26/07/2018
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Minutes from the weekly DPDK Release Status Meeting.

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 me and email and I will send you the invite.


Minutes 26 July 2018
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Agenda:

* Subtrees
* RC1
* RC2
* Release Dates
* Compilation Testing/Issues
* Bugzilla
* Userspace


Participants:

* Intel
* Cavium
* Mellanox
* NXP
* Debian
* Broadcom


Subtrees
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* Next-Net
  * Ready to pull.

* Next-Crypto
  * Merged to master.

* Next-virtio
  * Some patches/fixes for memory issues need to be applied.
    Tiwei to merge.

* Next-Eventdev
  * Patchset/PR ready.

* Next-Ip-pipeline
  * Patchset/PR ready.

* Master
  * Will merge patchset for autotest.
  * Waiting for virtio patches.
  * Will merge up to RC2 today.


RC1
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* Fixes/patches submitted for issues identifies as High and Medium during
  testing.


RC2
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* RC2 target was Wednesday 25th July.
* New RC2 target is Thursday 26th July.
* Virtio memory related patches and fixes.
* Tiwei will push to virtio subtree.
   * Will sync on IRC with Thomas.
   * Qian will send a list of fix patches.


Release Dates
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* RC2 target is Thursday 26th July.
* RC3 should be next Thursday Aug 2nd.
* If that is stable we may skip RC4 and go to release.
* Target release date is Wednesday Aug.


Compilation testing
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* FreeBSD 10.0 removed from compilation since it is deprecated.
* Will add FreeBSD 11.x instead.
* Docs need to be updated to reflect these changes. John to investigate.
* In the next release we should decide as a community what OS and kernel
  versions will be supported. We should also discuss this at DPDK Userspace
  Dublin.
* We should prepare patches for 18.11 with supported versions.
* We should also look at any upcoming issues with GCC 9.
* Pablo will run compilation test for Thomas prior to RC2.
* Luca, from Debian, highlighted the SuSE open build service that we could
  potentially use to test packaging:
  https://openbuildservice.org/

  https://build.opensuse.org/
* NXP have tested 18.08-RC1 builds and will report back on any issues in RC2.


Bugzilla
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* Issue from the last 7 days:
  https://bugs.dpdk.org/buglist.cgi?chfieldfrom=7d

Userspace
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* DPDK Userspace, Dublin  September 5-6:
  https://www.dpdk.org/event/dpdk-userspace-dublin-2018/

* Call for Papers closes Friday 27th July:
  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd5hfn58cTKWBcBO_eK6qKWAA5cG9BpPhBWZR_FMLIrgZKWuQ/viewform