[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 9/5/2019

[Ferruh Yigit]

Minutes 9 May 2019
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* RC3 status
* Subtrees
* OvS
* Conferences
* Opens


Participants:
* Arm
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Mellanox
* RedHat


Release Dates
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* v19.05 dates:
  * RC3 is released on Saturday, 4 May
  * RC4 date pushed to: *Thursday, 9 May*
  * Release date pushed to: *Monday, 13 May*

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

  * Schedule updated on roadmap page:
    https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/

* v19.11 proposed dates, *please comment*,
  * Proposal/V1               Friday 06 September 2019
  * Integration/Merge/RC1     Friday 11 October   2019
  * Release                   Friday 08 November  2019

  * Constrains:
    * PRC holidays on October 1-7 inclusive, rc1 shouldn't overlap with it
    * US DPDK Summit on mid November, better to have release before summit


RC3 status
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* RC3 Intel test results looks good
* IBM sent test report to the mail list, no issue reported
  * https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-May/131908.html


Subtrees
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* main
  * Will pull from next-net
  * Will get doc patches
  * Hash library issue probably can wait
  * Probably will get IPC fixes and will check timer fixes

* next-net
  * Got some code changes, pulled from intel and mlx trees

* next-virtio
  * No patches for rc4

* next-crypto
  * There are doc patches to merge
  * A few code patches can go in directly to main repo

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

* Stable trees
  * 18.11.2 is in progress
    * Will have the -rc on 20 May
    * Planning to release roughly on four weeks, it would be great to get
      LTS test results within this time frame
    * There is a patch that adds new device ids, should get it to LTS?
      * There is no objection to backport the patch, only need to confirm
        with driver maintainer that old driver supports new device ids


OvS
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* Nothing major


Conferences
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* DPDK Userspace summit: DPDK Userspace · Sept. 19-20, 2019
  https://www.dpdk.org/event/dpdk-userspace-bordeaux/
  * CFP Opens: Monday, April 29
  * CFP Closes: Friday, May 24

  * Reminder of the short CFP duration and deadline is approaching

* US summit dates are not fixed yet


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

* Where is the DTS in dpdk website. It is in:
  * https://www.dpdk.org/hosted-projects/

* Defects
  * We can discuss with Ajit to get defects status offline since the meeting
    timing is not good for him

* Test reports
  * It can be good if testers shares the test reports publicly in dev mail list
  * Report can be sent as reply to -rc announce mail, but only to the dev mail
    list, excluding the 'announce' mail list


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.