[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 11/03/2021

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

Release status meeting minutes {Date}
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:Date: 11 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
  - For Alibaba's PIO patchset better to do more test
    ** Intel verification looks good
  - Thomas is doing some clean up patches, more to come
  - Will do an early pull from next-net

* next-net
  - Progressing, nothing critical
  - Not observed the peak for the release yet
  - Pulled from vendor sub-trees
    ** waiting brcm tree for small changes
    ** Pulling from sub-trees less frequently, to reduce the overhead
       Planning to have weekly pulls, on Wednesdays
  - There is a new set of octeontx3 drivers, net driver with common
    driver dependency
    ** New drivers will go from mrvl tree to main repo directly
       *** Jerin will manage branches, one for to be pulled from main repo
           other is to be pulled from next-net

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

* next-eventdev
  - Some patches merged, some more to go
  - Will prepare a pull request when all merged

* next-virtio
  - Two series remaining from the previous release
  - Two new feature added to backlog for this release

* next-net-brcm
  - Waiting update for existing set

* next-net-intel
  - Some base file updates and raw/ifpga merged
  - More in the backlog

* next-net-mlx
  - A fix in the tree pulled to next-net
  - More patches expected before v1 deadline

* next-net-mrvl
  - A few patches merged and pulled by next-net


LTS
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* `v19.11.7-rc2` is out, please test
  - http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20210310133709.562846-1-christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com/
  - Intel reported and fixed some issues, -rc2 released with fixes
  - New planned release date is March 17

* `v20.11.1` is released
  - 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@intel.com>" for the invite.
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