[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 01/07/2021

[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 01/07/2021

[Mcnamara, John]

Release status meeting minutes {Date}
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:Date: 1 July 2021
:toc:

.Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

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


Release Dates
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* `v21.08` dates
  - Proposal/V1:    Wednesday, 2 June (completed)
  - -rc1:           Wednesday, 7 July
  - Release:        Tuesday,   3 August

* Note: We need to hold to the early August release date since
  several of the maintainers will be on holidays after that.

* `v21.11` dates (proposed and subject to discussion)
  - Proposal/V1:    Friday, 10 September
  - -rc1:           Friday, 15 October
  - Release:        Friday, 19 November

Subtrees
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* main
  - Backlog is a little big at the moment. RC1 will probably slip to Wednesday 7th July.
  - Most subtrees PRs are ready or close to ready.
  - Still waiting update on Solarflare patches.
  - New auxiliary bus patch series should go into this release.

* next-net
  - Testpmd patchset for Windows.
  - Looking at net/sfc patches.

* next-crypto
  - 4 new PMDs in this release:
    ** CNXK - reviewed - awaiting final version for RC1.
    ** MLX - still in progress. New version will be sent today.
    ** Intel QAT - under review.
    ** NXP baseband - requires new version.

* next-eventdev
  - PR for RC1 will be completed today.

* next-virtio
  - PR posted yesterday.

* next-net-brcm
 - All patches in sub-tree waiting to be pulled.

* next-net-intel
  - Proceeding okay. No issues

* next-net-mlx
  - PR not pulled due to comments that need to be addressed.
  - New version sent today.

* next-net-mrvl
  - Pull request for RC1 sent.


LTS
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* `v19.11` (next version is `v19.11.9`)
  - RC3 tagged.
  - Target release date July 2, however there are some late reported
    MLX regressions that are under investigation.
  - There are 2 other known issues:
    ** Plenty of GCC11 and Clang build issues were fixed, but 19.11.9
       is not yet compatible with clang 12.0.0. Fixes are discussed
       and a potential 3 backports identified for 19.11.10:
       https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733
    ** Due to a kernel patch backport in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
       SP3 6, compilation of kni fails there:
       https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728

* `v20.11` (next version is `v20.11.2`)
  - RC2 released
  - Some test reports coming in (Intel, MLX)
  - 6 July is proposed release date.

* Distros
  - v20.11 in Debian 11
  - v20.11 in Ubuntu 21.04


Defects
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* Bugzilla links, 'Bugs',  added for hosted projects
  - https://www.dpdk.org/hosted-projects/


Opens
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* There in an ongoing initiative around ABI stability which was
  discussed in the Tech Board call. A workgroup has come up
  with a list of critical and major changes required to let us
  extend the ABI without as much disruption. For example:

  ** export driver interfaces as internal
  ** hide more structs (may require uninlining)
  ** split big structs + new feature-specific functions Major
  ** remove enum maximums
  ** reserved space initialized to 0
  ** reserved flags cleared

* We need to fill details and volunteers in this table:
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1betlC000ua5SsSiJIcC54mCCCJnW6voH5Dqv9UxeyfE/edit?usp=sharing

* The DPDK North America Summit will be on July 12-13. Registration is free.
  https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-summit-north-america/



.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@intel.com>" for the invite.
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