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.