Release status meeting minutes 2021-11-18

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

Participants:

* ARM

* Canonical

* Intel

* Marvell

* Nvidia

* Red Hat

Release Dates

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* v21.11 dates: http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates

  * Doc, tool, and minor fixes (-rc4): 24November 2021

  * Release: 26 November 2021

* There is also a proposal to have only 3 releases in 2022:

  *  22.03, 22.07, 22.11

  *  Dates will be finalized after 21.11 release

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * Fixed merged in RC3

  * Mainly doc patches in RC4

* next-net-intel

  * Mainly doc patches in RC4

* next-net-mlx

  * A few remaining fixes to be merged

  * Majority merged in RC3

* next-net-brcm

  * No update.

* next-net-mrvl

  * No patches.

* next-eventdev

  * Doc series only (v4)

* next-virtio

  * 3 patches for vhost async (postponed to next release)

* next-crypto

  * A few BXP patches/fixes to be merged

* main

  * RC3 released

  * Only doc, tools and fixes will be merged in RC4

  * Wed 24 for RC4 and release on Friday 26

  * Subtree maintainers should rebase to main to pick up Fedora 35 fixes

  * Please submit 22.02/22.03 roadmaps next week.

LTS

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* There is a proposal to make 19.11 LTS into a 3 year release

* 20.11.3 released on Monday Sept 6

* 19.11.10 released on Monday Sept 6

* Distros

  * v20.11 in Debian 11

  * v20.11 in Ubuntu 21.04

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 8:30 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.