[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 11/06/2021

[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 11/06/2021

[Mcnamara, John]

Release status meeting minutes {Date}
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:Date: 10 June 2021
:toc:

.Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

.Participants:
* Arm
* Canonical
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat


Release Dates
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* `v21.08` dates
  - Proposal/V1:    Wednesday, 2 June (completed)
  - -rc1:           Monday, 5 July
  - Release:        Tuesday, 3 August

* Note: We need to hold to the early August release date since
  several of the maintainers will be on holidays after that.

Subtrees
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* main
  - Started merging series from last release
    ** PCI bus update for resets with VF devices
  - Thomas will start pulling branches today
  - Marvell: Raw device driver for basebase/PHY

* next-net
  - Andrew has started doing reviews

* next-crypto
  - 4 new PMDs in this release
    ** CNXK
    ** MLX
    ** Intel QAT
    ** NXP baseband
  - Reviews started

* next-eventdev
  - CNXK eventdev driver update

* next-virtio
  - 4 series from Intel around the async data - under review
  - 1 series from Maxime - kernel vdpa support - get mac address
    from hardware. Postponed from last series.
  - Working on vhost user issue with numa reallocation

* next-net-brcm
  - Should be a biggish release ~60 patches

* next-net-intel
  - No update this week

* next-net-mlx
  - Should be a small release for Mellanox

* next-net-mrvl
  - CNXK ethernet driver (from last release).
  - V3 should be merged last week.


LTS
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* `v19.11` (next version is `v19.11.9`)
  - 19.11.9 is in progress
  - Needs an RC3 - triggered by kernel update in SuSE
  - Tagged for release
  - Waiting for tests

* `v20.11` (next version is `v20.11.2`)
  - Tagged for release

* Distros
  - v20.11 in Debian 11
  - v20.11 in Ubuntu 21.04


Defects
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* Bugzilla links, 'Bugs',  added for hosted projects
  - https://www.dpdk.org/hosted-projects/


Opens
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* None


.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 every Thursdays at 8:30 UTC. on https://meet.jit.si/DPDK

If you wish to attend just send an email to "John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>" for the invite.
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