[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 6/08/2020

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

Minutes 6 August 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* -rc3/-rc4 status
* Subtrees
* LTS
* OvS

Participants:
* Arm
* Broadcom
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* NXP
* Red Hat


Release Dates
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* v20.08 dates:
  * -rc3 is released on Thursday, 30 July 2020
    * http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/11727811.Rr6YEUNczV@thomas/
  * -rc4 is released on Wednesday, 5 August 2020
    * http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/4161866.7AHn6HmuGJ@thomas/
  * Release         Friday, 7 August 2020

* v20.11 proposal dates, please comment:
  * Proposal/V1:    Friday, 11 September 2020
  * -rc1:           Friday, 9 October 2020
  * -rc2:           Friday, 23 October 2020
  * Release:        Friday, 13 November 2020

  * The dates are still not finalized, we need to discuss this offline and
    define dates as soon as possible, please comment.

  * Please remember to send roadmap for 20.11, non received yet.


-rc3/-rc4 status
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* Intel early -rc4 test result looks good
  * Fixes for two critical issues from -rc3 verified

* Red Hat -rc3 test result in mail list
  * No issue reported, all looks good


Subtrees
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* main
  * Only documentation updates after this point
    * John will help on release notes updates/review
  * There are lots of deprecation notices to review for the release
  * Tested platform patch form Mellanox merged, good to have similar report from
    all vendors for release notes
    * https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/74994/
    * https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/75198/
  * Please review roadmap website update patch
    * http://patchwork.dpdk.org/patch/75181/
  * Please all maintainers cleanup the patchwork before release

* next-net
  * No update after -rc3
  * Relevant patches directly merged to main repo by Thomas
  * There are deprecation notices to review for release

* next-crypto
  * No update on tree
  * Two/Three deprecation notices waiting for merge

* next-eventdev
  * No update on tree
  * There are deprecation notices in backlog
    * The one adding reserved fields may be dropped

* next-virtio
  * Done for release
  * vdpa patches for -rc4 merged directly to main repo
  * There is a Vhost dequeue zero-copy removal deprecation notice
    * https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/75147/
    * Need to sync with OvS community related to it
  * Another deprecation notice for rte_dev_probe() change
    * https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/72170/
    * Thomas & Maxime will synchronize offline on it

* next-net-mlx, next-net-intel, next-net-brcm
  * Patches merged directly to main repo


LTS
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* 19.11.4 work is going on
  * Some patches are backported, email sent, please review

* 18.11.10 work is going on
  * Some patches are backported


OvS
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* 2.14 release trending for 17 August



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 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.