[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 23/5/2019

[Mcnamara, John]

Minutes 23 May 2019
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* LTS
* OvS
* Opens


Participants:
* ARM
* Broadcom 
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Mellanox
* RedHat


Release Dates
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* 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/

  * Reminder to send roadmaps for the release, it helps planning
    * Intel is planning to send roadmap by the end of this week
    * Marvell will have new PMDs and will provide a 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

  * Constraints:
    * 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

Subtrees
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* Main
  * No activity this week.
  * Will target weekly merge starting next week.
* Next-Net  
  * RTE_prefix patch to be merged early.
  * This will cause a lot of breakage in patches/backports.
  * There is a script to convert the prefix automatically.
* Next-virtio
  * Not many patches yet.
  * Patch for SPDK.
    * Under review. There is a new API(s).
    * Requested some example code to demonstrate the APIs.
* Next-Crypto
  * No patches yet.
* Next-Eventdev
  * New timer patch for eventdev. Needs to be reviewed.
* Next-Ip-pipeline
  * No update


* Stable trees
  * 17.11.6
    * 17.11.6 released  22 May 2019
    * Testing with Red Hat lab (was down temporarily).
  * 18.11.2
    * 18.11.2-RC1 released 21 May 2019
    * 11 June is the planned release date.
    * Will be looking for testing from the community.


OvS
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* 18.11.2 RC1 is out.
* Need to look at the impact of the rte_prefix.
* Will rebase end-of-month DPDKmaster to OvS
* 2.12 release dates
  * 1 July for feature freeze
    * No features beyond that date 
  * 20th July for code freeze


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 can able to spend more time on crypto sub-tree and there is a potential
  co-maintainer from Arm, can close this open for now

* There still some Coverity defects open, some of them are from Marvell, NXP
  drivers, it would be great to close them


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.