Release status meeting minutes 2022-06-23
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

Participants:
* ARM
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat
* Xilinx/AMD


Release Dates
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The following are the proposed current dates for 22.07:

* Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 10 April 2022
* API freeze (-rc1): 6 June 2022 - Actual 8 June
* PMD features freeze (-rc2): 23 June 2022
* Built-in applications features freeze (-rc3): 30 June 2022
* Release: 13 July 2022

Updated dates are posted shortly after they are changed at:
http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates

Here are some provisional dates for 22.11:

* Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 14 August 2022
* API freeze (-rc1): 3 October 2022
* PMD features freeze (-rc2): 24 October 2022
* Built-in applications features freeze (-rc3): 31 October 2022
* Release: 16 November 2022

Subtrees
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* next-net
  * Majority of patches pulled in prep for RC2
  * Some patches still under review
  * Awaiting patch update from NFP

* next-net-intel
  * 4 patches waiting for upstream
  * Looking at fix for GCC12 issue in ice driver

* next-net-mlx
  * Awaiting pull for RC2

* next-net-brcm
  * No update

* next-net-mrvl
  * PR sent for RC2
  * 3 more patches - maybe TC2
  * Issue with GCC12 on qede driver

* next-eventdev
  * Merged
  * No more patches pending

* next-virtio
  * PR prepared and merged
  * Contains new MLX5 patchset
  * Only fixes and docs in queue

* next-crypto
  * Crypto is merged
  * Some fixes and other patches for RC3

* main
  * Prepping for RC2
  * Merging EAL patches
  * Still working through GCC12 issues
    * IP fragmentation patch still under discussion
  * Some followups on Thread API for Windows - from Microsoft
  * Cleanup series for memory leaks and NULL pointers need reviews:
    * https://patchwork.dpdk.org/bundle/dmarchand/need_reviews/
    * Will be merged if there are no reviews
  * RC2 should be out 2022-05-24
  * Ping Thomas if there are important features that need to be in RC2


LTS
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* 21.11.2
  * Back porting in progress
  * 21.11.1 released April 26th

* 20.11.6
  * Backporting waiting for RC2
  * 20.11.5 released April 4th

* 19.11.13
 * Backporting waiting for RC2
  * 19.11.12 released April 7th


* Distros
  * v20.11 in Debian 11
  * 22.04 will contain 21.11

Defects
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* Bugzilla links, 'Bugs',  added for hosted projects
  * https://www.dpdk.org/hosted-projects/


Opens
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* None


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 every Thursday at 9:30 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.