[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 21/2/2019

[Ferruh Yigit]

Minutes 21 February 2019
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* OvS
* Opens


Participants:
* Arm
* Debian
* Intel
* Mellanox
* NXP
* RedHat


Release Dates
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* v19.05 dates, no change:
  * Proposal Deadline: Friday, 1 March
  * RC1: Friday, 29 March
  * Release: Friday, 10 May

  * Schedule web page updated accordingly:
    http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates

  * Contributors please provide 19.05 roadmap whenever available
    * Mellanox, Arm & Intel sent, RedHat? NXP? Marvel? others?

* v19.08 proposal, please comment:
  * Proposal/V1               Friday 07 June   2019  
  * Integration/Merge/RC1     Friday 05 July   2019  
  * Release                   Thurs  01 August 2019 


Subtrees
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* main
  * Planning a merge from sub-trees on the end of the week
  * There is a concern around windows work, it needs:
    * early, small, incremental patches for better engage with community

* next-net
  * Nothing critical/open

* next-virtio
  * Can get some patches this week

* next-crypto
  * Akhil will be able to work on it this week
  * Need support on BBDev and Compressdev work

* next-eventdev
* next-pipeline
* next-qos
  * No update, we need attendance from maintainers

* Stable trees
  * 17.11.5 merged one released
  * 16.11.9 is the last release of 16.11, will wait for more test

  * There is a concern on missing response from developers on backport request
    for a stable/LTS tree.
    * For example the list of skipped patches because of developer support is at
      the end of the 17.11.5 release email:
      http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2019-February/000244.html


OvS
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* 2.11 release should be this week


Opens
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* Akhil is looking for co-maintainer for crypto sub-tree,
  any volunteer please contact to Akhil or Thomas.

* Coverity is partially back, but new analyses aren't running
  * Looking for suggestions from the community for a better or more stable
  solutions


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 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.