Release status meeting minutes 2021-12-09

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

Participants:

* ARM

* Canonical

* Intel

* Marvell

* Nvidia

* Red Hat

Release Dates

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The following are the proposed dates for 22.03:

* 22.03 V1 2021-12-31

* 22.03 Merge 2022-02-11

* 22.03 Release 2022-03-11

And some provisional dates for the subsequent releases:

* 22.07 V1 2022-05-06

* 22.07 Merge 2022-06-10

* 22.07 Release 2022-07-15

* 22.11 V1 2022-09-09

* 22.11 Merge 2022-10-18

* 22.11 Release 2022-11-18

Subtrees

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* next-net

* Some patches merged from mlx tree

* next-net-intel

* Some patches merged to next-net

* next-net-mlx

* Some patches merged to next-net

* next-net-brcm

* No update

* next-net-mrvl

- No update

* next-eventdev

* No update

* next-virtio

* Not many new series yet

* next-crypto

* No update on tree

* Some patches from Marvell and Intel QAT

* main

* Low activity at the moment

* Regression on vmxnet3 - under investigation

* Will work on tooling prior to V1

* There is a crash when using latest libabigail (stick to version 1.8)

LTS

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* There is a proposal to make 19.11 LTS into a 3 year release. This depends on companies providing testing for the additional releases:

* 21.11.1 in progress

* 20.11.4 in progress

* 19.11.11 in progress

* Distros

* v20.11 in Debian 11

* v20.11 in Ubuntu 21.04

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.