[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 25/02/2021

[Ferruh Yigit]

Meeting minutes of 25 February 2021
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* LTS

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


Release Dates
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* 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
     * Thanks to Marvell and Huawei hns3 for sending roadmap


Subtrees
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* main
   * Reviewing vfio patches from Nithin
   * Alibaba's PIO patch is under review
   * Power lib is causing build error
     * New version required for the existing patch
   * gcc11 build error, reproduced on fedora rawhide
     * Issue is gone in newer version of gcc11, will wait for update
   * Arm build issue
     * Latest main doesn't fail anymore
     * Centos 7 has different error
       * https://build.opensuse.org/build/home:bluca:dpdk/CentOS_7/aarch64/dpdk/_log
   * Thomas will send alpine & musl support
     * This will affect all, please review

* next-net
   * Consuming backlog, some patches already merged

* next-crypto
   * The reviews are going on

* next-eventdev
   * No update

* next-virtio
   * No update

* next-net-mlx
   * Some patches already merged, progressing

* next-net-brcm
   * There is a set under review

* next-net-intel
   * Some patches already merged, progressing

* next-net-mrvl
   * No update


LTS
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* v19.11.7-rc1 is out, please test
   * 
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20210222155851.3002880-1-christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com/

* v20.11.1-rc1 is out, please test
   * http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20210222150918.279483-1-luca.boccassi@gmail.com/

* For both of them target release date is March 8.



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 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.