[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 7/2/2019

[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 7/2/2019

[Ferruh Yigit]

Minutes 7 February 2019
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* OvS
* Opens


Participants:
* Debian
* Intel
* Mellanox
* RedHat


Release Dates
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* v19.02 released:
  * https://core.dpdk.org/download/
  * https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_19_02.html

* v19.05 dates:
  * Proposal Deadline: Friday, 1 March
  * RC1: Friday, 29 March
  * Release: Friday, 10 May

  * Schedule web page updated accordingly:
    http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates

  * Contributors please provide 19.05 roadmap whenever available
    * Intel & Mellanox working on sending one soon.
      Arm? RedHat? NXP? Marvel? others?


Subtrees
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* main
  * Intel will provide list of acked patches for early merge for release

* next-net
* next-virtio
* next-crypto
 * No new patch on the tree

* next-eventdev
* next-pipeline
* next-qos
  * No update, we need attendance from maintainers

* Stable trees
  * Stable tree RC waiting for test, anyone from community welcome to test them
    send a test report or even a quick note to mail list:
    * LTS: v16.11.9-rc2
    * LTS: v17.11.5-rc2
    * Stable: v18.08.1-rc3
  * Reminder, each stable managed as a branch on stable git tree:
    https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/
  * Can be good to provide more detailed information on what has been tested,
    like which libraries, in test reports
  * If there is good enough coverage of test reports received,
    stable tree can be released
  * CI should help testing stable trees, no update yet from DPDK community lab
    LTS testing request


OvS
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* In progress, no issue seen on 2.11
* Bug fix phase
* OvS can help testing DPDK LTS release candidates


Opens
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* Akhil is looking for co-maintainer for crypto sub-tree,
  any volunteer please contact to Akhil or Thomas.


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 Thursdays at 8:30 UTC. If you wish to attend just
send an email to "John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>" for the invite.