[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 20/08/2020

[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 20/08/2020

[Ferruh Yigit]

Minutes 20 August 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Highlights
* 20.08 retrospective
* LTS
* Opens

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


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


Highlights
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* No roadmap received yet. 20.11 is expected to be a big release, please send
  roadmaps to help managing the project.

* Need support for crypto tree. There are four new PMDs for this release and
  Akhil won't be available for some time. We need additional support on reviews.


20.08 retrospective
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* 20.08 released on Sun, 09 Aug
  * http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/8108418.8U4FE8ErZL@thomas/

* Overall able to hit the dates without much deviation in original plan

* Not much improvement on doc maintainership

* Short time between -rc1 & -rc2 didn't give enough time for bug fixes
  * If we have flexibility we can ensure a minimum time in between

* There were many features, not all able to make into release
  * Overall this is affecting all vendors
  * A process update to assign patches to reviewers will be voted in techboard
  * Different solutions discussed in the past, this is recurring problem

* vhost maintainer changes recovered quickly

* Inactive sub-trees removed, good to dynamically add/remove them


LTS
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* v19.11.4-rc1 is out, please test
  * http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20200818181222.8462-1-bluca@debian.org/T/#u
  * 200+ commits merged
  * Intel will start testing it
  * Target release date is 31 August.


Opens
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* event/dlb PMD may need some support for upstreaming, will follow in Intel.



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.