Release status meeting minutes 2022-02-10
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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:

* 22.03 V1         2021-12-31
* 22.03 Merge      2022-02-11
* 22.03 Release    2022-03-11

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

And 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
  * Reviewing and merging progressing
  * Reviewing ethdev patches
    * Critical for RC1
    * Some still need additional reviews/comments
  * Some sub-trees merged and some will be merged ahead of RC1/Friday.

* next-net-intel
  * Some patches merged to next-net

* next-net-mlx
  * Some patches ready for merge

* next-net-brcm
  * Some fixes in the Broadcom sub tree and some in the pipeline.

* next-net-mrvl
  * Some patches merged and some will be moved RC2

* next-eventdev
  * Some patches merged and some will be moved RC2

* next-virtio
  * Prepared a PR
  * Working on the vhost async - Maybe for RC1, probably for RC2
  * Series about vdpa - deferred
  * Series for collecting statistics for vhost - also deferred

* next-crypto
  * Waiting on new versions of some cryptodev patches
  * Also patches for async API
  * Also several PMD changes



* main

  * EAL series  on fast restart with many hugepages merged

  * Windows Threading API - needs reviews
    * Doesn't look ready for merge

  * Other subtree merging in progress readying for RC1


LTS
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* 21.11.1
  * Target April (after 22.03)

* 20.11.4
  * Released on 2022-01-17

* 19.11.11
  * Released on 2022-01-07


* 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<mailto:john.mcnamara@intel.com>" for the invite.