[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 27/08/2020

[Ferruh Yigit]

Minutes 27 August 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* LTS
* OvS
* Conferences
* Opens

Participants:
* Arm
* Broadcom
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat


Release Dates
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* v20.11 dates
  * Proposal/V1:    Friday, 11 September 2020
  * -rc1:           Friday, 9 October 2020
  * -rc2:           Friday, 23 October 2020
  * Release:        Friday, 13 November 2020

  * Nvidia Mellanox & Marvell already sent roadmap, all contributors please send
    roadmap for the release.


Subtrees
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* main
  * No update

* next-net
  * Doing reviews and merges, nothing critical or urgent at this stage

* next-crypto
  * No update

* next-eventdev
  * There is new DLB driver

* next-virtio
  * No update

* next-net-mlx, next-net-intel, next-net-brcm, next-net-mrvl
  * Nothing in trees yet


LTS
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* 18.11.10
  * Backporting going on
  * -rc1 can be on early September

* v19.11.4-rc1 is out, please test
  * http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20200818181222.8462-1-bluca@debian.org/T/#u
  * Canonical, Red Hat & Intel sent test reports. Intel reported a few issues.
    * Following the Intel reported issues.
  * Target release date is 31 August.


OvS
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* Validating DPDK v19.11.4, will send the report soon

* Started building DPDK with meson on Travis

* Zero-copy deprecated, it will be gone in 2.15


Conferences
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* DPDK Userspace summit 2020 is on September 22 & 23, schedule is online:
  https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-userspace-summit/program/schedule/


Opens
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* Can be good to get report on Bugzilla.



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 every Thursdays at 8:30 UTC. on https://meet.jit.si/DPDK

If you wish to attend just send an email to
"John McNamara <john.mcnamara at intel.com>" for the invite.