Release status meeting minutes 2022-09-01
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

Participants:
* ARM
* 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 (previously 14 August)
* RC1:          3 October  2022 (subject to discussion)
* RC2:         23 October  2022
* RC3:         31 October  2022
* Release:     16 November 2022

Subtrees
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* next-net
  * New drivers in this release
    * Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) PMD
      * There are several RDMA implementation now.
      * Should we have RDMA bus driver?
    * Google Virtual Ethernet (GVE)
    * idpf (Infrastructure Data Path Function) PMD
    * net/qdma PMD
  * Work on removing deprecated flow API/code - needs acks from Intel
    * https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220812191827.3187441-1-ivan.malov@oktetlabs.ru/
  * Flow director clean-up merged

* next-net-intel
  * No update

* next-net-mlx
  * No update

* next-net-brcm
  * No update

* next-net-mrvl
  * Started merging patches
  * Reviews ongoing

* next-eventdev
  * Started merging patches
  * Reviews ongoing

* next-virtio
  * Around 30 patches in queue
  * Several vhost patches

* next-crypto
  * 3-35 patches merged
  * Patches for BBDev - needs review
  * Adding crypto security and sessions rework
  * Additional FIPs validation patches in this release

* main
  * New arch type: LoongArch
  * Proposed RC1 date (3 October) clashes with a national holiday
    in PRC (October 1st - ~October 7th). We may need to push RC1
    to October 10th, but that is late, so this needs some
    consideration/discussion.
  * DPDK EU summit next week.


Other
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* DPDK Summit: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-userspace-summit/
  * Event Dates: Tuesday, September 6 - Thursday, September 8, 2022
  * Schedule: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-userspace-summit/program/schedule/


LTS
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Waiting for test results. Aiming for August 29th for all 3 LTSs.

* 21.11.2
  * Back porting in progress

* 20.11.6
  * Back porting in progress

* 19.11.13
  * Back porting in progress



* 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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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.