DPDK Release Status Meeting 7/3/2019

DPDK Release Status Meeting 7/3/2019

[Ferruh Yigit]

Minutes 7 March 2019
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Opens


Participants:
* Arm
* Debian
* Intel
* Mellanox
* NXP
* RedHat


Release Dates
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* v19.05 dates, no change:
  * Proposal Deadline has ended on Friday, 1 March
  * RC1: Friday, 29 March
  * Release: Friday, 10 May

  * Schedule web page updated accordingly:
    http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates

* v19.08 proposal, please comment:
  * Proposal/V1               Friday 07 June   2019  
  * Integration/Merge/RC1     Friday 05 July   2019  
  * Release                   Thurs  01 August 2019

  There is a discussion about deadline, to give more time between rc1 and
  the release, please comment, if no objection we can update proposal:
  https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-February/125000.html


Subtrees
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* main
  * More patches planned to be merged today/tomorrow
    * Thomas will check eal patches
  * Will work on 'experimental' tag to remove, initially on 'eal' and 'ehtdev'
    libraries. Volunteers to check other libraries are welcome.
  * Planning a merge from sub-trees on the end of the week
  * Features of the release to pay attention:
    * Arm locking patches
      * Need more review
    * Windows patches
      * May get only preparation patches for this relase
      * Team is working on and target initial 'hello world' patchset upstream
      * Mellanox is willing to contribute to the work, Thomas will organize
        companies next week to work together including Microsoft.

* next-net
  * nothing critical/urgent at this point
  * Four new PMDs, af_xdp, memif, ifpga ipn3ke, netcope nfb
    * Need to start merging them, leaving them to the rc1 deadline will be risky
      for the PMDs. Will ping authors in the background if attention required.
    * memif has a dependency, need to resolve, needs review:
      * http://patchwork.dpdk.org/patch/49009/

* next-virtio
  * reviews and new version of patches going on
  * not much merge expected this week

* next-crypto
  * There will be some merges this week
  * _Need support on BBDev and Compressdev work_

* next-eventdev
* next-pipeline
* next-qos
  * No update, we need attendance from maintainers

* Stable trees
  * 18.11-1-rc1 is out, waiting to be tested
  * 16.11.9-rc2 Intel test result found some errors, Qian will sync more with
    Luca on details.
  * With release 17.11.5 Intel test result found some errors, Qian to send a
    public report for the errors.
  * 18.08.1-rc3 is waiting for more test
    * RedHat validated virtualization part of it, needs more test
    * It is not in current plans of Intel to test it
    * Mellanox is not interested with 18.08.1
    * With the missing interest and testing, should drop the 18.08.1 stable
      release? We need comment from community.
    * Including missing maintainer for 19.02 stable and lack of interest to
      18.08, a wider question, should we drop short term stable releases
      altogether? Need to discuss in mail list.


Opens
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* Akhil is looking for co-maintainer for crypto sub-tree,
  any volunteer please contact to Akhil or Thomas.

* DPDK stinks? Luca tested Sonarcloud static analysis tool, he says '(22000 code
  smells flagged)'. More details on his email:
  https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-March/125887.html
  * Need John McNamara's input to compare Sonarcloud with Coverity
  * We need to figure out if Sonarcloud can be static analysis tool solution for
    DPDK


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 Thursdays at 8:30 UTC. If you wish to attend just
send an email to "John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>" for the invite.