Release status meeting minutes 2022-11-10
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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:         14 November 2022
* RC4:         18 November 2022
* Release:     23 November 2022

Subtrees
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* next-net
  * Mainly fixes from now on.
  * Still a lot of patches and waiting on reviews
  * Some outstanding for testpmd, memif and request from Intel to help review.

* next-net-intel
  * Needs additional time for RC3 as there are still have P2 bug fixes to be reviewed.
  * There are alos bug fixes on dpdk-next-net-intel tree waiting for merge.

* next-net-mlx
  * Closing on patches. Bug fixes only for RC3.

* next-net-mrvl
  * No new patches.

* next-eventdev
  * Pull request sent to Thomas.

* next-virtio
  * Pull request sent to Thomas.

* next-crypto
  * 20 fixes applied with some more to apply.
  * Will be ready later today/tomorrow for Pull Request

* main
  * RC2 released on November 1.
  * Mempool stats - no response from Mailing List as to whether it needs to be in RC3 or not.
    * Ok to merge in this release.
    * Will need additional testing.
    * Request to Intel team to test.
  * DMA perf app - still has RFC tags.
    * need confirmation in Intel [RFC v5] app/dma-perf: introduce dma-perf application
    * OK for 22.03.
  * RC3/RC4 and Release dates have changed. See above.

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
  * Backport patches have been sent
  * Some in progress

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 over Jitsi on https://meet.jit.si/DPDK

You don't need an invite to join the meeting but if you want a calendar reminder just
send an email to "John McNamara john.mcnamara@intel.com" for the invite.