[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 18/03/2021

[Mcnamara, John]

Release status meeting minutes {Date}
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:Date: 18 March 2021
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.Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* LTS
* Conferences
* Opens

.Participants:
* Arm
* 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`, `Huawei hns3`, `Nvidia`, `Wangxun` and `Intel` for
    sending roadmap


Subtrees
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* main

  - Thomas focused on Windows related patches
  - Patches for ARM compilation
  - Pulled MMIO for virtio legacy devices patches from Alibaba
  - Tests broken due to version macro (fix pending)
  - Should merge musl support in this release
    ** Needs support in CI Community lab
    ** Maybe run in container
  - Migrating the Git repositories, documentation, and the DPDK
    core website on Sunday 28th March

* next-net
  - Progressing, nothing critical

* next-crypto
  - Not much update
  - Will review/merge some apps and drivers this week

* next-eventdev
  - Several ongoing patches: periodic timer, vector event,
    removal of DLB1 and updates to DLB2, CNXK evnetdev

* next-virtio
  - Some series are ready but no PR yet


LTS
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* `v19.11.7-rc2` is released, 2021-03-17
  - http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20210317170343.3267049-1-christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com/T/#u

* `v20.11.1` is released, 2021-03-08
  - http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20210308181351.409609-1-luca.boccassi@gmail.com/


Conferences
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* DPDK APAC 2021 event is approaching, it is on 22-23 March
  - https://www.dpdk.org/event/dpdk-summit-apac-2021/
  - https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-summit-apac/


Opens
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* John is evaluating lgtm.com
  - https://lgtm.com/projects/g/DPDK/dpdk/?mode=list

* Is there anyone did code review on github, please reach out for BKMs or for
  experience sharing



.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.
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