From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: New RC needed for stablility? Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:02:38 +0200 Message-ID: <4994002.UncbAHUyZt@xps> References: <20180430125743.GC100464@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org, ferruh.yigit@intel.com To: Bruce Richardson Return-path: Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com (out2-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FE3F16E for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:02:40 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20180430125743.GC100464@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 30/04/2018 14:57, Bruce Richardson: > Hi Thomas, Ferruh, all, > > Initial testing on RC1 from our System Test and Validation shows a lot of > defects/issues, and from the list it appears others may be seeing issues > too. These issues, as well as causing test failures are blocking other > tests from being run. We are also seeing some serious performance > regressions with testpmd. > > Based on the number of issues we are seeing, which is probably a result of > the huge number of changes in this release even at the RC1 point, I would > propose that we look to do a new RC some time this week to get as many > critical bugs as possible ironed out, before we add in the remaining 18.05 > features. That is: *bug-fix only* RC2, say Wed/Thurs (or sooner if fixes > are ready), with remaining features in RC3 as planned on 11th. > > Thoughts, comments? OK +1 We need to agree on a list of bugs to be fixed. Are there some Bugzilla entries? When they will be fixed, I will tag the RC2.