Release status meeting minutes 2022-09-15

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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 [No]

Release Dates

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The following are the proposed current dates for 22.11:

* V1 deadline: 24 August   2022

* RC1:          3 October  2022

* RC2:         23 October  2022

* RC3:         31 October  2022

* Release:     16 November 2022

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * Ethdev reviews ongoing

  * Some patches merged

  * New drivers in this release

    * Microsoft Azure Network Adatper (MANA) PMD

      * There are several RDMA implementation now.

      * Should we have RDMA bus driver?

    * Google Virtual Ethernet (GVE)

    * idpf (Infrastructure Data Path Function) PMD

    * net/qdma PMD

* next-net-intel

  * Patches waiting for pull

* next-net-mlx

  * No update

* next-net-brcm

  * No update

* next-net-mrvl

  * Patches pushed and waiting for pull

* next-eventdev

  * Patches pushed and waiting for pull

* next-virtio

  * Issue in 22.11 branch causing deadlock in vHost

* next-crypto

  * 30-35 patches merged and awaiting pull

  * Review of crypto security and sessions rework patches

    * Call for review comments from community because it

      affects a lot of drivers

  * Patches around BBDev

    * ACC 100/200 patches

  * FIPs validation patches need reviews acks

  * Asym changes under review

* main

  * Looking at EAL patches

  * Windows Thread series has updates

  * New arch type: LoongArch

  * MLX5 new features coming around rte_flow

  * CC Thomas for attention any patchsets that need early merge

LTS

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Waiting for test results. LTS release 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 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/

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.