Release status meeting minutes 2023-02-02

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

Participants:

* AMD

* ARM

* Intel

* Nvidia

* Red Hat

Release Dates

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The following are the proposed current dates for 23.03:

* V1:      25 December 2022

* RC1:      8 February 2023

* RC2:      1 March    2023

* RC3:      8 March    2023

* Release: 20 March    2023

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * The next-net tree needs more reviews/support.

  * 30+ patches on rte_flow

  * 25+ ethdev patches

  * Both sets need reviews and fixes

  * CPFL has dependencies - needs to be clarified

  * Ethdev patch for live migration

    - Currently the design may only work with MLX

      so it may get moved to a private API

  * Patch series for trace points in ethdev

* next-net-intel

  * 20+ patches ready for merge.

* next-net-mlx

  * Some patches integrated and waiting to be pulled.

  * More in the backlog.

* next-net-mvl

  * Patches merge and awaiting pull

* next-eventdev

  * Patches merge and awaiting pull

* next-baseband

  * Two series

    - One reviewed and one needs revision

* next-virtio

  * Review on big Control Queue support series

  * Async vhost packed ring optimization

* next-crypto

  * Some pat

  * 2 major series

    - Compressdev - need review

    - PDCP (Packet Data Convergence Protocol)

* main

  * Thread API from Tyler under review

    * First one merged

  * Telemetry patches from Robin under review.

  * Two series on annotations.

    - Preferred syntax under discussion

  * Spurious failures in service-cores tests

  * testpmd fixes/additions need closer reviews

  * igbuio build issue - There are multiple reports and fix patches. One should be merged.

Proposed Schedule for 2023

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

23.03

  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 25 December 2022

  * API freeze (-rc1): 8 February 2023

  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 1 March 2023

  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 8 March 2023

  * Release: 20 March 2023

23.07

  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 15 April 2023

  * API freeze (-rc1): 31 May 2023

  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 21 June 2023

  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 28 June 2023

  * Release: 12 July 2023

23.11

  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 12 August 2023

  * API freeze (-rc1): 29 September 2023

  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 20 October 2023

  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 27 October 2023

  * Release: 15 November 2023

Other

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* TBA

LTS

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Next releases will be:

* 22.11.1

* 21.11.4

* 20.11.8

* 19.11.15?

  * CVE and critical fixes only.

* 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

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