Release status meeting minutes 2022-03-10

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

Participants:

* ARM

* Debian

* Intel

* Marvell

* Nvidia

* Red Hat

Release Dates

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The following are the proposed dates for 22.03 (note, the slight extension of the release date):

* 22.03 RC4        2022-03-14

* 22.03 Release    2022-03-16

Updated dates are posted shortly after they are changed at:

http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates

Here are some provisional dates for the subsequent releases:

* 22.07 V1         2022-04-10

* 22.07 Merge      2022-05-30

* 22.07 Release    2022-07-13

* 22.11 V1         2022-09-14

* 22.11 Merge      2022-10-03

* 22.11 Release    2022-11-16

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * Tree merged to RC3

  * Some testpmd fixes outstanding - new reviews or change requests required

  * I40e build error from ARM - fix available

  * Fixes should now go to main repo directly

* next-net-intel

  * Some fixes to be pulled

* next-net-mlx

  * Around 8 new patches for fixes since RC3

* next-net-brcm

  * No update

* next-net-mrvl

  * Some patches/fixes merged to subtree

* next-eventdev

  * No outstanding patches

* next-virtio

  * PR ready

* next-crypto

  * Regression in vhost crypto - Fix completed and merged

* main

  * Release candidate 22.03-rc3 released on 2022-03-08

  * Some CI build failures on Ubuntu 21.04 and 21.10

  * Still quite a few fixes to be merged

  * Will collect fixes into RC4 for release/testing on Monday 2022-03-14

  * Will target full release for Wednesday 2022-03-16

LTS

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* 21.11.1

  * Backporting progressing

* 20.11.5

  * Backporting progressing

* 19.11.12

  * Backporting progressing

* Distros

  * v20.11 in Debian 11

  * 22.04 will contain 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.