[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 18/02/2021

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Thu Feb 18 14:22:25 CET 2021


Meeting minutes of 18 February 2021
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* 21.02 retrospective
* LTS

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


Release Dates
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* v21.02 is released on Sunday, 14 February 2021
   * https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-February/199730.html
   * https://core.dpdk.org/download/
   * https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.html

* v21.05 dates
   * Proposal/V1:    Thursday, 18 March
   * -rc1:           Thursday, 15 April
   * Release:        Friday, 14 May

   * Please send roadmaps, preferably before beginning of the release


21.02 retrospective
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* It was a small release
* For last two years LTS get improved
   * It was smoother switch from 19.11 to 20.11
* Bugzilla utilized better, more bugs are closed
   * Still there are some long open ones
* Coverity runs automated
   * Better coverage on CI with help of meson
* There are not concluded patches long standing in backlog
   * Need better support from community to close them
   * May consider a meeting to go through them
* No major disruption from new gcc1 compiler
* Release dates mostly predictable, there are small slips but not major ones
* CI can be improved more, we have new CI lead (Aaron)
   * Removing dependency to hugepages, devices and root access makes unit tests
     easier to be used
     * This way it can be run in more platforms and at build time
   * Unit tests can be run in the CI with coverage calculation
   * The unit test frameworks around: unity, cunity


LTS
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* v19.11 (next version v19.11.7)
   * Received more backports/feedback
   * Still waiting response for a few backport
   * Will sync with Luca for -rc date

* v20.11 (next version v20.11.1)
   * A few more patches waiting for response
     * If there is no response, will have the -rc tomorrow
       * Can wait next week if there will be backporting

* There are some patches waiting response from authors to backport to LTS.
   LTS maintainers are contacted for the backport, some of the components waiting
   for response is as following, please check:
   * hns3, mlx4/5, ice, bnxt



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.


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