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" for the invite.