[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 14/2/2019

[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 14/2/2019

[Ferruh Yigit]

Minutes 14 February 2019
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* GSoC
* OvS
* Meson-Ninja
* Opens


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


Release Dates
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* 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
    * Mellanox, Arm & Intel sent, RedHat? NXP? Marvel? others?


Subtrees
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* main
  * Merged some patches and pulled sub-trees

* next-net
  * Some patches pushed and merged into main repo
  * Small number of patches awaiting merge

* next-virtio
  * Some patches pushed and merged into next-net

* next-crypto
* 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/
  * 17.11.5 merged one more fix
  * 17.11.5 will be released without waiting more testing
  * 16.11.9 is the last release of 16.11, will wait for more test
  * 18.11 will create an RC next week


GSoC
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* Google Summer of Code
* Some good suggestions sent to the list
  * https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/web/2019-February/001025.html


OvS
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* A week away for 2.11 release
* Patch for using meson build system for pkg-config
* David found issue with EAL threads. Regression came in 18.05


Meson-Ninja
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* Debian and Canonical are using it
* PDF build not working
* Thomas seeing some issues with cross-compilation and non-standard dependencies
* Windows trying to using
* RedHat still using make. RHEL 7 doesn't have support. RHEL 8 does
* There is a target to switch to meson build on 19.11


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

* Propose 19.08 dates next week


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.