Release status meeting minutes 2022-11-03
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

Participants:
* ARM [No]
* Canonical [No]
* 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
* RC1:          7 October  2022
* RC2:         28 October  2022
* RC3:         10 November 2022
* Release:     XX November 2022 - To be determined.

Subtrees
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* next-net
  * Mainly fixes from now on.
  * Rte_flow clean-up moved to next release
  * New drivers in this release:
    * Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) PMD
      * Compilation is disabled until dependencies become available
    * Google Virtual Ethernet (GVE)
      * Merged
    * idpf (Infrastructure Data Path Function) PMD
      * Merged
    * net/qdma PMD
      * Most likely next release

* next-net-intel
  * Merged in RC2. Bug fixes only for RC3.

* next-net-mlx
  * Merged in RC2. Bug fixes only for RC3.

* next-net-mrvl
  * Merged in RC2. Bug fixes only for RC3.

* next-eventdev
  * Merged in RC2. Bug fixes only for RC3.

* next-virtio
  * Merged in RC2. Bug fixes only for RC3.

* next-crypto
  * Some fixes applied and some more to apply.

* main
  * RC2 released on November 1.
  * RC3 will be on November 10.
  * There seems to have been a Coverity server update leading to
    more new issues than usual. Could maintainers please apply any
    Coverity fixes for RC3, subject to the usual quality checks.



Proposed Schedule for 2023

23.03
  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 30 December 2022
  * API freeze (-rc1): 10 February 2023
  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 24 February 2023
  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 3 March 2023
  * Release: 10 March 2023
23.07
  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 7 April 2023
  * API freeze (-rc1): 26 May 2023
  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 16 June 2023
  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 23 June 2023
  * Release: 14 July 2023
23.11
  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 11 August 2023
  * API freeze (-rc1): 29 September 2023
  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 20 October 2023
  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 27 October 2023
  * Release: 17 November 2023


Other
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* TBA

LTS
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Next releases will be:

* 21.11.3
  * Backport patches have been sent
  * Some in progress

* 20.11.7
  * Backport patches have been sent
  * Some in progress

* 19.11.14

Discussion needed on whether we will continue the 3 year LTS cycle that
was trialled for 19.11 to the 20.11 LTS cycle.


* 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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progress or milestone dates.

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Drafts/Notes
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