Release status meeting minutes 2022-11-03

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

Participants:

* ARM [No]

* Canonical [No]

* Debian/Microsoft

* 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:          7 October  2022

* RC2:         28 October  2022

* RC3:         10 November 2022

* Release:     XX November 2022 - To be determined.

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * Mainly fixes from now on.

  * Rte_flow clean-up moved to next release

  * New drivers in this release:

    * Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) PMD

      * Compilation is disabled until dependencies become available

    * Google Virtual Ethernet (GVE)

      * Merged

    * idpf (Infrastructure Data Path Function) PMD

      * Merged

    * net/qdma PMD

      * Most likely next release

* next-net-intel

  * Merged in RC2. Bug fixes only for RC3.

* next-net-mlx

  * Merged in RC2. Bug fixes only for RC3.

* next-net-mrvl

  * Merged in RC2. Bug fixes only for RC3.

* next-eventdev

  * Merged in RC2. Bug fixes only for RC3.

* next-virtio

  * Merged in RC2. Bug fixes only for RC3.

* next-crypto

  * Some fixes applied and some more to apply.

* main

  * RC2 released on November 1.

  * RC3 will be on November 10.

  * There seems to have been a Coverity server update leading to

    more new issues than usual. Could maintainers please apply any

    Coverity fixes for RC3, subject to the usual quality checks.

Proposed Schedule for 2023

23.03

  * 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

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Next releases will be:

* 21.11.3

  * Backport patches have been sent

  * Some in progress

* 20.11.7

  * Backport patches have been sent

  * Some in progress

* 19.11.14

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/

Opens

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* None

DPDK Release Status Meetings

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status of the master tree and sub-trees, and for project managers to track

progress or milestone dates.

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Drafts/Notes

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