Release status meeting minutes 2022-09-22
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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:          3 October  2022
* RC2:         23 October  2022
* RC3:         31 October  2022
* Release:     16 November 2022

Subtrees
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* next-net
  * Ethdev patches remaining
    * Need reviews
  * NPF driver needs review
    * https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=24678
    * Sets up internal ethdev to communicate with firmware
    * Uses OVS specific/duplicated structs
  * New drivers in this release
    * Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) PMD
      * V9 is out and under review
    * Google Virtual Ethernet (GVE)
      * Some discussion on MIT licenced code
    * idpf (Infrastructure Data Path Function) PMD
    * net/qdma PMD
      * Awaiting reply from submitter
  * Memif driver needs reviews from maintainer

* next-net-intel
  * No update this week

* next-net-mlx
  * No update this week
  * Some big changes to come

* next-net-mrvl
  * Patches merged and waiting for pull

* next-eventdev
  * Patches merged and waiting for pull
  * Some driver dependencies with next-net-mrvl
  * ~10 other patches

* next-virtio
  * Issue in 22.11 branch causing deadlock in vHost
    * Fix merged. Will need backport
  * vhost call API safe call causes deadlock SPDK
    * SPDK will use a workaround with new API

* 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
    * This is a much needed clean-up
  * Patches around BBDev
    * ACC 100/200 patches
  * FIPs validation patches need reviews acks
  * Asym changes under review

* main
  * Subtrees not pulled yet
  * Large rte_device rework done by David
    * Bus and device clean-up to hide rte_bus, rte_drive
      and rte_device objects
    * Changes code in buses in a lot of drivers
    * Will need support from sub-tree maintainers
  * Looking at EAL patches
  * Windows Thread series has updates
  * New arch type: LoongArch
  * MLX5 new features coming around rte_flow
  * CC Thomas for attention to any patchsets that need early merge
  * We will have 3 release cycles next year. Initial proposed schedule
    Below based on last year's dates.


Proposed Schedule for 2023
--------------------------

23.04
  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 30 December 2022
  * API freeze (-rc1): 10 February 2023
  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 24 February 2023
  * Builtin 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
  * Builtin 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
  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 27 October 2023
  * Release: 17 November 2023


Other
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* TBA

LTS
---

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/




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.