Release status meeting minutes 2023-02-09
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

Participants:
* AMD
* Intel
* Red Hat



Release Dates
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The following are the proposed current dates for 23.03:


* V1:      25 December 2022
* RC1:      8 February 2023 - Moving to 16-17 February
* RC2:      1 March    2023
* RC3:      8 March    2023
* Release: 20 March    2023


Subtrees
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* next-net
  * Merged some patches to next-net and rebased on latest main.
  * From the remaining patches (~100 patches remaining if you drop very old ones):
    - 8 flow API patchset, 5 of them fully acked by Ori
    - 4 ethdev set
      - One of them sent today
      - 2 of them direct-rearm and MAC occupy two entries, they are from previous versions. Some concerns on these.
    - Multiple testpmd and driver patches, will look at them after library ones
      - Have asked for changes for af_xdp CNI one, it is missing some documentation and needs some minor code changes
      - It will be great if we can have more testpmd reviews
    - New PMD probably won't go into -rc1
      - Needs update from next-intel maintainer


* next-net-intel
  * No update.

* next-net-mlx
  * No update.

* next-net-mvl
  * No update.

* next-eventdev
  * Patches merged and awaiting pull

* next-baseband
  * Two series: One reviewed and one needs revision

* next-virtio
  * Pull request sent and merged.
  * Quite a few patches ready for virtio.

* next-crypto
  * No update.

* main
  * 3 patches to merge
    * Windows Thread API
    * Robin Telemetry patches
      - EAL parts are ready
      - Some more need on testpmd
    * Not enough consensus/discussion on lock annotations
    * The following needs review:
      * enhance NUMA affinity heuristic
      * https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20230201122048.1283392-1-kaisenx.you@intel.com/
    * Proposal to move RC1 to February 16-17



Proposed Schedule for 2023
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See also http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates

23.03
  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 25 December 2022
  * API freeze (-rc1): 8 February 2023
  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 1 March 2023
  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 8 March 2023
 * Release: 20 March 2023

23.07
  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 15 April 2023
  * API freeze (-rc1): 31 May 2023
  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 21 June 2023
  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 28 June 2023
  * Release: 12 July 2023

23.11
  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 12 August 2023
  * API freeze (-rc1): 29 September 2023
  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 20 October 2023
  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 27 October 2023
  * Release: 15 November 2023

Other
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* TBA

LTS
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Next releases will be:

* 22.11.1

* 21.11.4

* 20.11.8

* 19.11.15?
  * CVE and critical fixes only.


* 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


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