DPDK Release Status Meeting 2022-01-20

DPDK Release Status Meeting 2022-01-20

[Mcnamara, John]

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Release status meeting minutes 2022-01-20
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

Participants:
* ARM
* Debian
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat


Release Dates
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The following are the proposed dates for 22.03:

* 22.03 V1         2021-12-31
* 22.03 Merge      2022-02-11
* 22.03 Release    2022-03-11

See also http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates



And some provisional dates for the subsequent releases:

* 22.07 V1         2022-05-06
* 22.07 Merge      2022-06-10
* 22.07 Release    2022-07-15



* 22.11 V1         2022-09-09
* 22.11 Merge      2022-10-18
* 22.11 Release    2022-11-18



Subtrees
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* next-net

  * Reviewing and merging has started

  * PR will be created EOD 2022-01-21

  * Some Ethdev patches under review

    - Patchset for rte_flow bulk  insertion to review
    - Currently no hardware  backend

  * New driver: Net/SPNIC from @ramaxel.com

* next-net-intel

  * Some patches merged to next-net


* next-net-mlx

  - Some patches merged and pulled
  - Will submit some other patches that are awaiting changes

* next-net-brcm

  * Some patchsets merged
  *  Some more fixes in the pipeline, but nothing major right now

* next-net-mrvl

  - Some patches being pushed
  - Expecting around 30 patches

* next-eventdev

  * 5 patches from Intel
  * 15 patches from Marvell
  * All under review

* next-virtio

  * Some reviewing ongoing
  * Reviewing patch on vhost async
  * Adding stats to vhost library (probably in 22.07)

* next-crypto

  * Not many merges yet

  * Starting to review and merge



* main

  * Some series for Windows
    - Unit tests - awaiting new  version
    - Threading API - needs  reviews

  * Patches for Mempool, Ring and EAL

  * EAL series from Dmitri under review

  * Automated delegation in patchwork

  * There is a need for some new maintainers since some have stepped down

    *  TAP and Bonding in particular




LTS
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* 21.11.1

  * Target April (after 22.03)

* 20.11.4
  * Released on 2022-01-17

* 19.11.11
 * Released on 2022-01-07



* 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<mailto:john.mcnamara@intel.com>" for the invite.


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