[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 26/03/2020

[Mcnamara, John]

Minutes 26 March 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* OvS

Participants:
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Mellanox
* NXP
* Red Hat
* ARM


Release Dates
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* v20.05 dates:
  * Proposal/V1:           Wednesday 18 March 2020
  * Integration/Merge/RC1: Friday    17 April 2020
  * Release:               Wednesday 20 May   2020

  * Marvell, Arm, Mellanox & Broadcom already sent roadmap for 20.05, all
    vendors please share the roadmap for the release.


Subtrees
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* main
  * Some patches merged around EAL.
  * Added Travis CI support for ARM.
    * Still some random failures. Under investigation.
  * There are several last series that need reviews in this release.
    * This is challenging.
    * We need the whole community involved with reviewing.
  * Three big patch sets from Marvell
    * IF proxy, Trace and Graph.
  * Call for review of the testing guidelines:
    * http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/web/2020-March/001346.html
Fixed issues with

* next-net
  * Andrew Rybchenko took over maintenance this week from Ferruh.

* next-crypto
  * Some patches merged
  * Half of the backlog reviewed
  * No major issues at the moment

* next-eventdev
  * Some patches (10-15) to be merged.

* next-virtio
  * Reviewing vHost IO IOAT Support Series
    * Some progress in the discussion on the list.
    * Agreed to do it in the vHost library.

* next-net-intel
  * No update.

* next-net-mlx
  * Working on a couple of patch series.

* LTS

  * 18.11.7
    * -rc1 is out.
    * Release planned for 14 April

  * 19.11.1 released
    * https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-March/160132.html


OvS
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* Second OVS-DPDK meeting done, thanks Kevin for notes and recording:
  * https://bluejeans.com/s/6wR3z
  * Intel is preparing something to present in next meeting

* Planning to do more test on 19.11.1



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 at intel.com>" for the invite.