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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