[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 30/04/2020

[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 30/04/2020

[Ferruh Yigit]

Minutes 30 April 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* -rc1 status
* Subtrees
* OvS
* Opens

Participants:
* Arm
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Mellanox
* Red Hat


Release Dates
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* v20.05 dates:
  * -rc1 is released on Monday, 27 April
    * http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/2138318.D4D8VRik6i@thomas/
  * -rc2				Friday 8 May 2020
  * Release:				Wednesday 20 May 2020

* v20.08 proposal dates, please comment:
  * Proposal/V1:		Tuesday, 16 June 2020
  * Integration/Merge/RC1:	Tuesday, 14 July 2020
  * Release:			Friday, 7 August 2020

  * Please send roadmap for the release


-rc1 status
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* Intel completed majority of tests, no major issue found so far
  * Test report will be sent when ready

* Marvel test report also doesn't show any major issue


Subtrees
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* main
  * Mainly fixes at this moment
  * gcc10 fixes
    * still not all fixed, should be fixed for -rc2
  * eal and ABI patches
    * __rte_internal
  * working on merging rte_graph and rte_telemetry for -rc2
  * bitops is cleanup patch, would be good to have it in -rc1
    at this stage it may not make this release
  * meson patches from Bruce to fix static linking
    May be postponed to next release
  * Rawdev for compress+crc multi function, short-term
    solution needs to be decided in mail list

* next-net
  * Started to merge patches, no big patchset for -rc2
  * ethdev patch not accepted because of ABI break, it will need to wait 20.11
    * http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/1923738.gORTcIGjah@thomas/
  * ~60 patches in backlog for -rc2

* next-crypto
  * no update

* next-eventdev
  * Only a few patches for -rc2 to be reviewed

* next-virtio
  * Good progress this week, some patches already merged for -rc2
    * mlx5 vdpa, packet ring vector path, zero copy optimizations, etc...
  * Only a few remaining, PR almost ready

* next-net-intel
  * Some fixes for -rc2 has been merged and pulled to next-net

* next-net-mrvl
  * ~10 patches to be reviewed for -rc2


OvS
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* Finished validating stable trees
  * OvS 2.11 & 2.12 validated with DPDK 18.11.7
  * OvS 2.13 & master branch validated with DPDK 19.11.1


Opens
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* Latest coverity scan showed 120 new defects, some of them from old code base,
  this may be related to the coverity backend changes
  * Need more support to resolve all new issues



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@intel.com>" for the invite.