Release status meeting minutes 2022-03-03
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

Participants:
* ARM
* Debian
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat


Release Dates
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The following are the proposed dates for 22.03:

* 22.03 RC3        2022-03-07
* 22.03 Release    2022-03-11

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

Here are some provisional dates for the subsequent releases:

* 22.07 V1         2022-04-10
* 22.07 Merge      2022-05-30
* 22.07 Release    2022-07-13

* 22.11 V1         2022-09-14
* 22.11 Merge      2022-10-03
* 22.11 Release    2022-11-16


Subtrees
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* next-net
  * Mainly complete. Not many patches left in the backlog
  * Some GCC12 build issues

* next-net-intel
  * Mostly complete

* next-net-mlx
  * Some fixes to be submitted for RC3

* next-net-brcm
  * No update

* next-net-mrvl
  * Majority of patches merged

* next-eventdev
  * Majority of patches merged
  * 2-3 other patches for RC3

* next-virtio
  * PR ready

* next-crypto
  * ~15 patches remaining, mainly fixes
  * Some work going on around FIPS



* main

  * EAL series  on fast restart with many hugepages merged

  * Some work going on around sample apps

  * RC3 likely on or before Monday 7 March


LTS
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* 21.11.1
  * Backporting progressing

* 20.11.5
  * Backporting progressing

* 19.11.12
  * Backporting progressing


* 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.