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

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