[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 28/3/2019

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Thu Mar 28 13:03:32 CET 2019


Minutes 28 March 2019
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Coverity
* Opens


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


Release Dates
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* v19.05 dates, rc1 date pushed to Wednesday:
  * RC1: *Wednesday, 3 April*
  * Release: Friday, 10 May

* v19.08 dates:
  * Proposal/V1               Monday 03 June   2019  
  * Integration/Merge/RC1     Monday 01 July   2019  
  * Release                   Thurs  01 August 2019

  * schedule update patch:
    https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/web/2019-March/001055.html

* v19.11 dates should be discussed soon


Subtrees
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* main
  * More patches to merge
  * Thomas is looking Arm locking patches

* next-net
  * Around 60 patches waiting for review
  * New pmds not merged yet: af_xdp, memif, ifpga ipn3ke, netcope nfb
    * af_xdp updates some other libraries, may go in rc2
    * memif may not make this release

* next-virtio
  * Patches has been merged, tree pulled

* next-crypto
  * ipsec updates mbuf, needs to be addressed
  * ipsec-secgw can be slip to rc2

* next-eventdev
  * no update

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

* Stable trees
  * 18.08.1-rc3 is waiting for more test
    * 18.08.1 release planned for next Monday
  * 18.11-1-rc2 is out, waiting to be tested
    * Intel & Mellanox test result look good
    * 18.11.1 release planned on 8 April
  * 19.02
    * Short term stable releases discussed on techboard,
      more detail will be on techboard meeting minutes
    * Will be dropped unless there is volunteer
  * 19.11
    * Luca may be tree maintainer


Coverity
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* Coverity is back on, John run a new scan with latest code:
  https://scan.coverity.com/projects/dpdk-data-plane-development-kit

* John shared lgtm.com results to the mail list:
  * https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-March/127986.html
  * lgtm dpdk project link:
    https://lgtm.com/projects/g/DPDK/dpdk/alerts/?mode=list


Opens
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* Akhil is looking for co-maintainer for crypto sub-tree


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.


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