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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: [dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 13/05/2021
Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 13:25:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YJ0a1rl2Uo1Wtvqt@silpixa00399752> (raw)

Release status meeting minutes {Date}
=====================================
:Date: 13 May 2021
:toc:

.Agenda:
* Release Dates
* -rc2/3 status
* Subtrees
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

.Participants:
* Arm
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Individual contributor(s)
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat


Release Dates
-------------

* `v21.05` dates
  - -rc3 is released on Wednesday, 12 May
    ** http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/7142607.3L8AUzOtay@thomas/
  - -rc4:           Tuesday, 18 May
  - Release:        Friday, 21 May

* `v21.08` dates
  - Proposal/V1:    Wednesday, 2 June
  - -rc1:           Monday, 5 July
  - Release:        Tuesday, 3 August

* Please send roadmaps, preferably before beginning of the release

* Expecting a small `v21.08` release.


rc2/3 status
------------

* -rc2 test results
  - Intel shared the -rc2 test results
    ** http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/SJ0PR11MB5150E9B661923E5695B012A4FE539@SJ0PR11MB5150.namprd11.prod.outlook.com/
    ** Only one critical issue which already fixed
    ** Other found issues reported in Bugzilla
  - IBM shared the -rc3 test result
    ** http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/78b3dba4-c019-7bd0-023c-ce2713cb37f0@linux.vnet.ibm.com/
    ** Nothing critical
  - Broadcom -rc2 tests all passed (reported offline)

* The -rc3 is new, no test reports yet.
  - Initial Intel result shows no critical issues
    ** Intel plans to finish testing on next Tuesday

* Good to get more test results, please share the test reports


Subtrees
--------

* main
  - Tooling and doc patches after this point
  - There is Arm config patch in the backlog, Ruifeng will help on review
    ** The one from Huawei for SVE may be reviewed more
    ** Qualcomm one can be ready
  - Dmitry's Windows patch can be postponed to next release

* next-net
  - Will be a fixes after this point
  - Some patches in the backlog not merged because of missing review and won't
    be in the release, like bonding, memif, tap ...
  - testpmd Windows patches postponed to next release

* next-crypto
  - crypto unit test refactor patch merged
    ** There may be an issue reported by CI, it can be fixed separately
  - mlx crypto PMD is postponed to next release
  - NXP baseband driver is postponed to next release

* next-eventdev
  - There is one fix for dlb2

* next-virtio
  - Two fixes merged for -rc3, not more in the backlog
  - A crash reported, need to fix it ASAP
    ** https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703

* next-net-brcm
  - No patches in the backlog

* next-net-intel
  - Will get fixes

* next-net-mlx
  - 3 bugs found, will be fixes for them

* next-net-mrvl
  - No patches in the backlog


LTS
---

* `v19.11` (next version is `v19.11.9`)
  - Not much update at this stage

* `v20.11` (next version is `v20.11.2`)
  - "Xueming(Steven) Li" requested support for backporting some commits
    ** http://inbox.dpdk.org/stable/28797869-b83a-fba8-5c85-8527e4107ac4@intel.com/T/#u


Defects
-------

* Ajit sent the report offline:

* gcc11 defects: 676, 673, 692, 690, 691
  - Some fixed, some not reproduced anymore
  - Only one we are aware of is in cryptodev test, Kevin sent a fix for it:
    ** https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20210505085314.54750-1-ktraynor@redhat.com/

* Bugs reported with 21.05 rc1/rc2: 693, 699, 688, 702, 687
  - Since these are regressions, we should try and fix these in 21.05 - if
    possible.


Opens
-----

* Nvidia is planning to upstream a GPU library for next release
  - Can work together with any vendor willing to contribute, good to have a
    vendor agnostic library

* 'next-net' sub-tree will be maintained by Andrew, Thomas & David during
  'v21.08' (instead of Ferruh). Thanks for their support.

* Cheng started working on the security issues

* Alpine Linux has the target to run DPDK in a small container
  - It uses musl libc and busybox
  - Thomas is testing on Alpine



.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 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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