[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 21/3/2019

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

Minutes 21 March 2019
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* OvS
* Coverity
* Opens


Participants:
* Arm
* Debian
* Intel
* Mellanox
* RedHat


Release Dates
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* v19.05 dates, no change:
  * RC1: Friday, 29 March
  * Release: Friday, 10 May

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

* v19.08 proposal:
  * Proposal/V1               Monday 03 June   2019  
  * Integration/Merge/RC1     Monday 01 July   2019  
  * Release                   Thurs  01 August 2019

  * Received a roadmap item from Rami for Huawei
    * Great to see more engagement for upstreaming


Subtrees
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* main
  * More patches to merge, nothing major at this point
  * Features of the release to pay attention:
    * Arm locking patches
      * Need more review
      * Intel side is doing some benchmarks, Arm observes performance increase
    * Windows patches, requires three things:
      * Need public roadmap
      * Upstream effort, which is already happening
      * Push changes into dpdk-draft-windows repo
    * More eal patches to review/merge
  * There will be regular merge from sub-trees at end of the week

* next-net
  * nothing critical/urgent at this point
  * New pmds not merged yet: af_xdp, memif, ifpga ipn3ke, netcope nfb
    * All are waiting for new version,
    * Should be able to merge them next week to be on time for RC1
    * memif still has eal dependency
  * Some stats, ethdev read_clock API, etc.. waiting, nothing major

* next-virtio
  * Most of the patches has been merged, tree pulled
  * Nothing major waiting for RC1

* next-crypto
  * Akhil applied some patches this week
  * Need to clarify if the sub-tree will be ready for merge this week

* next-eventdev
  * Pulled previous week

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

* Stable trees
  * 16.11.9 released. This was the last 16.11 LTS release
    * Thanks to Luca and all supported for the work
  * 17.11.6 will be next release with 19.02 changes
  * 18.08.1-rc3 is waiting for more test
    * Intel test results received
      * One issue reported, analyzed as not introduced in this release
    * 18.08.1 release planned for next week
  * 18.11-1-rc1 is out, waiting to be tested
    * -rc2 will be created with a few post 19.02 critical patches
    * -rc2 planned for next a few days
    * 18.11.1 release planned on 8 April
  * 19.02
    * There is no maintainer right now
    * The 19.02 short term stable tree may be dropped
    * Will be discussed in next techboard meeting, on next Wednesday
    * Decision will be announced


OvS (received offline)
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* Roni Bar Yani did a readout on hardware offload in OVS-DPDK using
  rte_flow. Link to slides and recording here
  * https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2019-March/357413.html


Coverity
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* Coverity is back on, John run a new scan with latest code:
  * https://scan.coverity.com/projects/dpdk-data-plane-development-kit?tab=overview
    * 293 Outstanding defects!

* There were other tools suggested in mail list:
  * https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-February/125006.html
  * sonarcloud.io
    * https://sonarcloud.io/dashboard?id=bluca_dpdk
      * 215 Bugs
  * lgtm.com
    * https://lgtm.com/projects/g/DPDK/dpdk/alerts/?mode=list
      * 211 Alerts


Opens
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* Akhil is looking for co-maintainer for crypto sub-tree,


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.