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* [dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 11/06/2020
@ 2020-06-17 15:34 Mcnamara, John
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From: Mcnamara, John @ 2020-06-17 15:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Minutes 11 June 2020
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Agenda:
* Meeting
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* OvS

Participants:
* Arm
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Mellanox
* Red Hat


Meeting
-------

* Call for maintainers to follow up on patches that have stalled.
  * There are several patchset hanging around but not progressing.
  * Maintainers should ask people for reviews or to respond to open comments.
  * This would help overall progress with merging.

* From next week (18 June) we with use Jitsi instead of Skype for meetings:
  * https://meet.jit.si/DPDK

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

* v20.08 dates:
  * Proposal/V1:    Friday,   12 June   2020
  * -rc1:           Wednesday, 8 July   2020
  * -rc2:           Monday,   20 July   2020
  * Release:        Tuesday,   4 August 2020


Subtrees
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* main

  * Series from Stephen Hemminger on changing whitelist/blacklist:
    * http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-June/170240.html

  * There are a lot of patch series in this release including:
    * RCU integration
    * Bitops - ready for merge
    * Lcore hotplug - for attaching external threads
    * Vfio VF token interface
    * IF Proxy
    * Several Windows series


* next-net
  * Merging on track ahead of V1 deadline.

* next-crypto
  * No update this week.

* next-eventdev
  * No update this week.

* next-virtio
  * Not a lot of patches.
  * Changes and improvements in virtio/vhost initialization.
  * Significant rework of the vDPA API - goal is to remove the experimental tag.

* next-net-mlx
  * Some big series ready to be merged or pending - patches to support Windows.


LTS
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  * v19.11.3-rc1 is out, please test
    * https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-June/169263.html
    * Test results from Intel and Mellanox.
    * Waiting for results from Microsoft, OvS and Red Hat.

  * v18.11.9 in progress
    * Majority of patches backported.
    * Issues with GCC10.
    * RC1 towards the end of next week.
    * Then moving to validation phase.


OvS
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* Validating CVE fixes
  * A performance drop observed previously couldn't be replicated.

* Release feature deadline is beginning of the July and code freeze mid July


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.

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