[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 12/12/2019

[Ferruh Yigit]

Minutes 12 December 2019
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* OvS

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


Release Dates
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* v20.02 dates:
  * Proposal/V1 deadline passed, it was on Wednesday 11 December 2019
  * Integration/Merge/RC1:	Wednesday 15 January 2020
  * Release:			Friday 14 February 2020

  * Reminder for 20.02 roadmaps from contributors,
    Marvell & arm already sent, waiting from other contributors.


Subtrees
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* main
  * Working on ABI breakage issue with high priority
    * Consensus is not have 19.11.1 to fix it, but workaround it and live
      with this workaround for ABI_20 lifetime
  * David is reviewing ABI tooling patches

* next-net
  * Nothing much in both backlog and the repo
  * 'ionic' PMD reviewed, licensing needs to be clarified

* next-net-crypto
  * eventmode to ipsec-secgw patchset will be reviewed this week
  * Need to clarify CPU crypto patchset status, also Akhil will start a
    discussion to clarify the techboard working group decision on matter
  * For Intel crypto PMDs, the external dependent libraries are switching to
    single "Intel IPSec Multi-buffer library" opensource library:
    * https://github.com/intel/intel-ipsec-mb
  * octeontx inline ipsec patchset is in the queue
  * there is a crypto unit test update, all PMD maintainers should be aware of
    these changes
    * https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/63788/

* next-net-eventdev
  * no update

* next-net-virtio
  * Working on virtio vdpa driver, new version
    * Move vdpa related code to a common folder discussion not clarified yet.

* LTS

  * 17.11.10
    * Some patches already backported, targeting January for release

  * 18.11.6
    * Another batch of patches backported
    * Will send list of backport failed patches which is growing
    * May have -rc mid next week
      * Yunan will check if it can be validated if -rc is out next week


OvS
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* There was OvS conference this week, videos will be available later:
  http://www.openvswitch.org/support/ovscon2019/



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.