Release status meeting minutes 2022-10-20
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

Participants:
* ARM [No]
* Canonical [No]
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat
* Xilinx/AMD


Release Dates
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The following are the proposed current dates for 22.11:

* V1 deadline: 24 August   2022
* RC1:          7 October  2022
* RC2:         28 October  2022 - moved from 24 October
* RC3:         31 October  2022
* Release:     16 November 2022

Subtrees
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* next-net
  * NFP several patches in backlog
  * Indirect Aging patches under review
  * Ethdev - Recovering events sent by driver - merged
  * New drivers in this release:
    * Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) PMD
      * Merged in RC1
      * However, there is an issue due to dependencies not being available
      * Compilation will be disabled until dependencies become available
        * Patch sent
    * Google Virtual Ethernet (GVE)
      * Some discussion on MIT licenced code
      * Went to governing board review
    * idpf (Infrastructure Data Path Function) PMD
      * Under review
      * New version to be sent today to address review comments
    * net/qdma PMD
      * Awaiting reply from submitter
      * Most likely next release
  * Memif driver needs reviews from maintainer

* next-net-intel
  * 15-20 patches waiting for merge
  * Mostly bug fixes

* next-net-mlx
  * Big patchset for hardware steering targeting RC2

* next-net-mrvl
  * PR sent for RC2

* next-eventdev
  * Awaiting 1 patch from Intel
  * After that PR sent for RC2

* next-virtio
  * Most patches review
  * Awaiting new version of async vhost

* next-crypto
  * Big series on BBDev
  * QAT crypto driver patches need ack
  * New Huawei UADK driver
    * New version under test

* main
  * RC2 moved to Friday 28 October
  * Looking at fixes
    * ASAN fixes
    * Trace framework
  * Memarea postponed
    * Needs other reviews
  * Mempool changes need tests and reviews prior to merge in RC2
    * Should go into RC2
  * DTS first series to be merged
  * Meson version upgraded to 0.53.2.
  * KNI deprecation warnings added for compile and runtime
  * We should also upgrade the minimum required kernel version for 22.11
    * Suggestions welcome
    * Probably the earliest LTS kernel: 4.14
  * Looking for RC1 test reports from different vendors


Proposed Schedule for 2023

23.03
  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 30 December 2022
  * API freeze (-rc1): 10 February 2023
  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 24 February 2023
  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 3 March 2023
  * Release: 10 March 2023
23.07
  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 7 April 2023
  * API freeze (-rc1): 26 May 2023
  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 16 June 2023
  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 23 June 2023
  * Release: 14 July 2023
23.11
  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 11 August 2023
  * API freeze (-rc1): 29 September 2023
  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 20 October 2023
  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 27 October 2023
  * Release: 17 November 2023


Other
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* TBA

LTS
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LTSes released on August 29th.

Next releases will be:

* 21.11.3

* 20.11.7

* 19.11.14

Discussion needed on whether we will continue the 3 year LTS cycle that
was trialled for 19.11 to the 20.11 LTS cycle.


* Distros
  * v20.11 in Debian 11
  * Ubuntu 22.04 contains 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


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