[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 2021-09-02

[Mcnamara, John]

Release status meeting minutes 2021-09-02
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

Participants:
* ARM
* Broadcom
* Canonical
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat


Release Dates
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* v21.11 dates
  * Proposal/V1:    Friday, 10 September
  * -rc1:           Friday, 15 October
  * Release:        Friday, 19 November


Subtrees
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* main
  * Reviews starting

* next-net
  * Reviews ongoing
  * Reviewing Ethdev patches
  * Will pull from sub-tree today

* next-net-brcm
  * Patchset of 14 patches pending on patchwork
  * All other patches are merged into the Broadcom subtree

* next-net-intel
  - Reviews and merging ongoing

* next-net-mlx
  - PR not pulled due to comments that need to be addressed
  - New version sent today.

* next-net-mrvl
  - Some patches submitted and already pulled by Ferruh

* next-crypto
  * Started merging
  * PR ready early next week

* next-eventdev
  * Arourn 15 patches
  * Changes for API hiding (for ABI stability)

* next-virtio
  * Reviewing patches
  * Xilinx driver reviewed
  * DMA Device RFC under review
  * 30 patches on list
  * New vdpa driver


LTS
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* v19.11 (next version is v19.11.10)
  * Awaiting test reports
  * Proposed release: Sept 6

* v20.11 (next version is v20.11.3)
  * Awaiting test reports
  * Proposed release: Sept 6

* Distros
  * v20.11 in Debian 11
  * v20.11 in Ubuntu 21.04


Defects
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* Bugzilla links, 'Bugs',  added for hosted projects
  - https://www.dpdk.org/hosted-projects/


Opens
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* Call for roadmaps
* Proposal to submit roadmaps during the release week


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 Thursdays at 8:30 UTC. on https://meet.jit.si/DPDK

If you wish to attend just send an email to "John McNamara <john.mcnamara at intel.com>" for the invite.