Release status meeting minutes 2022-05-05
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

Participants:
* ARM
* Intel
* Debian/Microsoft
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat
* Xilinx/AMD


Release Dates
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The following are the proposed current dates for 22.07:

* Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 10 April 2022
* API freeze (-rc1): 30 May 2022
* PMD features freeze (-rc2): 20 June 2022
* Built-in applications features freeze (-rc3): 27 June 2022
* Release: 13 July 2022

Updated dates are posted shortly after they are changed at:
http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates

Here are some provisional dates for 22.11:

* Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 14 August 2022
* API freeze (-rc1): 3 October 2022
* PMD features freeze (-rc2): 24 October 2022
* Built-in applications features freeze (-rc3): 31 October 2022
* Release: 16 November 2022

Subtrees
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* next-net
  * Moving forward with merging patches

* next-net-intel
  * 18 patches ready for merge

* next-net-mlx
  * Some patches pushed to next-net

* next-net-brcm
  * No update

* next-net-mrvl
  * 20 patches merged
  * 14 patches in queue

* next-eventdev
  * 20+ patches merged under review or pending merge

* next-virtio
  * Fixing checksum bugs in virtio
  * New version of Async vhost patches - getting closer to merge

* next-crypto
  * 30 patches merged and 20 ready to be merged
  * New PMD from Atomic Rules

* main
  * Looking at Thread patch series for Windows
      * Progressing - needs reviews
  * Enabling of ASAN in the CI
      * Some blocking issues
   * Fix sent by Anatoly
  * Lock annotations series:
    * https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=22292
    * Needs docs and remerge after Maxime's changes
  * Cleanup series for memory leaks and NULL pointers need reviews:
    * https://patchwork.dpdk.org/bundle/dmarchand/need_reviews/
  * Sample apps being updated
  * Header split patchset needs review
    * http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220402104109.472078-2-wenxuanx.wu@intel.com/
  * Docs fix for ETH and VLAN flow items in Support Matrix from Ilya needs review/merge
    * https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220316120157.390311-1-i.maximets@ovn.org/
  * Public meeting on: ethdev: datapath-focused meter actions
    * http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2022-April/239961.html




LTS
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* 21.11.1
  * Released April 26th

* 20.11.5
  * Released April 4th

* 19.11.12
  * Released April 7th


* 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" for the invite.