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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