Release status meeting minutes 2022-10-13

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

Participants:

* ARM

* Canonical [No]

* Debian/Microsoft [No]

* 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 - Was 3 October

* RC2:         23 October  2022

* RC3:         31 October  2022

* Release:     16 November 2022

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * RC1 out

  * Hairpin feature is merged

  * Ethdev - Dumping Rx/Tx descriptors - merged

  * Ethdev - Recovering events sent by driver - has comments that need to be addressed

  * 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

    * Google Virtual Ethernet (GVE)

      * Some discussion on MIT licenced code

      * Went to governing board review

    * idpf (Infrastructure Data Path Function) PMD

      * Under review

    * net/qdma PMD

      * Awaiting reply from submitter

  * Memif driver needs reviews from maintainer

* next-net-intel

  * Some fixes merged

* next-net-mlx

  * Some big changes to come on hardware steering for RC2

* next-net-mrvl

  * 13 patches to merge. 2 merged.

* next-eventdev

  * 4 patches from Intel merged

  * 4 patches from E/// under review

* next-virtio

  * Actively reviewing patches, ~24 in queue

* next-crypto

  * QAT crypto driver patches need ack

  * Patches around BBDev

    * 1 patchset merged and 1 pending

  * New Huawei UADK driver

* main

  * RC1 out. Features merged:

    * LoongArch merged

    * Windows Thread API merged

    * Buffer split merge

    * Member library with NitroSketch

    * Power library

    * See announce for full list: http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2022-October/000428.html

  * Telemetry series under discussion

  * Memarea postponed

    * Needs other reviews

  * Mempool changes need tests and reviews prior to merge in RC2

  * Regression on unit tests due to mempool changes

  * 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

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

  * Built-in 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

  * Built-in 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

  * Built-in 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.

* 21.11.2

* 20.11.6

* 19.11.13

Discussion needed on whether we will continue the 3 year LTS cycle that

was trialed 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

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.

Drafts/Notes

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