[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 02/08/2018

[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 02/08/2018

[Mcnamara, John]

DPDK Release Status Meeting 02/08/2018
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Minutes from the weekly DPDK Release Status Meeting.

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 me and email and I will send you the invite.


Minutes 2 August 2018
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Agenda:

* RC2
* RC3
* Deprecation Notices
* FreeBSD
* Release Dates


Participants:

* Intel
* Cavium
* Mellanox
* NXP
* ARM


RC2
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* Look okay overall from Intel testing.
* Some issues to be resolved in virtio/vhost.


RC3
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RC3 targeted for Sunday 5th August.

Status of the subtrees:

    * Next-Net
      * Pull ongoing.
      * Pulled virtio.
      * Pulling from vendors.

    * Next-Crypto
      * 1 patch pending to be applied today.

    * Next-virtio
      * Pulled.

    * Next-Eventdev
      * No new patches.

    * Next-Ip-pipeline
      * Up to date.


Deprecation Notices
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Please ensure all deprecation notices are reviewed and acked:
http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?q=deprecation


FreeBSD
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We are looking for a FreeBSD DPDK maintainer to keep the ports up to date and
fix minor incompatibility issues. Ideally someone who also works with the
FreeBSD community.


Release Dates
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* RC3 targeted for Sunday Aug 5th.
* No RC4, although doc additions and minor cosmetic fixes will be accepted.
* Target release date is Thursday Aug 9th for release.