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Technical Steering Committee

Welcome to the OPNFV TSC page.

Information and materials relevant to the TSC are kept here, for information regarding OPNFV projects and releases please refer to those pages.

TSC Meetings

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When (Normally): 6:00am - 7:00am Pacific Time (13:00-14:00 UTC 14:00-15:00 UTC Find your local time).

Feb 26, 2019

Agenda

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Feb 19, 2019

Agenda

Minutes

  • Approval of minutes
    • No comments - minutes approved
  • Chair report Bin Hu
    • TAC meeting last week 
      • LFN infra meeting on Fridays. Trevor Bramwell attending on behalf of OPNFV. 
      • TAC chair election. LF to draft job description. 
      • Document review to be done on GitHub from now on.
      • TAC meeting scheduled for next week (Feb 27) at 7 a.m. Pacific.
  • Termination reviews 
    • NetReady
      • Georg Kunz says that the project has been inactive lately and has completed its primary goals.
      • The TSC approves the proposal to terminate the NetReady project.
    • Pinpoint
      • No one available from the project.
      • David McBride says that the project has been dormant for years.
      • The TSC approves the proposal to terminate the Pinpoint project.
  • Intern project proposal process
    • David McBride describes proposal, which has been updated since last week per feedback received.
    • The TSC approves the intern project proposal process.
      • Note:  the 'endvote' command was not entered, so meetbot did not tally the results of the vote and publish them in the HTML log as usual.  However, you may see the individual votes in the text log.
    • David McBride to prepare schedule for TSC review per the approved inter project proposal process 
  • Code and release quality improvements 
    • https://etherpad.opnfv.org/p/Code_and_Release_Quality
    • David McBride to propose revised language for removing committers that are inactive for 1 year. Will be removed unless PTL wants to make an exception. 
    • TSC agrees to document the gerrit best practices in the OPNFV wiki without setting a hard requirement through gerrit rule enforcing 
  • Release update 
    • MS5 - scenario status - March 1. 
      • Scenario owners should have scenarios documented on the Hunter scenario status page, as well as running in OPNFV CI.

Feb 12, 2019

Agenda

Minutes

  • Approval of minutes
    • No comments - minutes approved
  • Marketing update Brandon Wick
    • slides
    • ONS
      • Booth demo proposals due tomorrow (Feb 13) 
      • Please add Un-conference proposals to the wiki page 
      • Any ONS attendance (unconference, demo) requires purchase of an ONS pass.
    • OCP
      • Continuing collaboration with OCP. LFN will have a booth at the OCP Summit, Mar 14-15, San Jose, CA. 
      • David McBride to coordinate with Kenny Paul on soliciiting feedback on the possibility of bringing Edge gear to plugfest/DDF 
    • Plugfest/DDF report in review 
  • Intern program update
    • Frank Brockners suggests producing a ranked list instead of a recommended list 
    • Do we need more flexibility? Should we spread out the intern selection throughout the year?
    • Frank Brockners suggests selecting one intern beginning in March, then two in the summer. 
    • Mark Beierl proposal: align internships with releases: 2 for fall release, 1 for spring? 
    • David McBride to update process proposal per feedback.
  • Termination review update
    • The TSC approves the proposed update to the project termination process.
  • Release update
    • Hunter MS5 scheduled for March 1. 
    • David McBride asks scenario owners to make sure that their scenarios are documented on the scenario status page and to verify that their scenarios are running in OPNFV CI and passing deployment and health check.
  • IT/Infra update Trevor Bramwell
    • Jenkins update was successful.
    • gerrit is moving to AWS
  • Action item review
    • David McBride to close TSC-13 once the termination proposal process has been updated, per today's vote. 
    • David McBride to create JIRA issue for intern project proposal process 
    • Trevor Bramwell suggests adding an issue to document PTL election guidelines.  Trevor will create the JIRA issue. Goal is to document guidelines while maintaining OPNFV tradition of giving projects broad latitude in how they select their PTL.
    • Discussion about history of PTL selection in OPNFV. (dmcbride, 15:00:03)
    • Frank Brockners says that OPNFV has always emphasized project autonomy and independence in PTL selection. This may explain why no process is documented. 

Feb 5, 2019

Agenda

  • Approval of previous meeting minutes
  • Agenda bashing
  • Chair Report Bin Hu
    • TAC Meeting - Jan 30
    • Rescheduling of weekly technical discussion
      • Choices:
        • stay with current time:  6 a.m. PST, Thurs
          • Manuel and Frank have conflict
          • Conflicts with ONAP TSC
        • 7 a.m. PST, Monday
          • Conflicts with CVC bi-weekly 
        • 7 a.m. PST, Friday
          • Difficult for APAC (11 p.m.)
  • Termination Review
    • JOID 
      • Vote text: "Does the TSC approve of the proposal to terminate the JOID project? (+1, 0, -1)"
    • Bamboo 
      • Vote text: "Does the TSC approve of the proposal to terminate the Bamboo project? (+1, 0, -1)"
  • Code and Release Quality Improvement Cristina PaunaBin Hu
    • etherpad
    • Improve project's info accuracy
      • Scan the projects of inactive committers and confirm with the PTLs that they can be removed, then proceed with the removal procedure
    • Improve gerrit best practices
      • Enforce the practices that can be done via Jenkins (e.g., prohibit merging own patches)
    • Use Functest to verify installer patches
      • By running a subset of the Functest tests for all patches made on installers before they are merged we make sure basic functionality is not broken by patches
      • Implemented, but recommend adapting as formal policy
      • Expand to feature projects
      • Document the procedure to disable the verify jobs: an approval from the Release manager or TSC should be required
    • Reduce the time it takes for running the tests
      • Parallel testing (run in parallel tests from the same tier or run tiers in parallel)
  • Release update: David McBride
  • LF IT/Infra update: Aric Gardner, Trevor Bramwell
  • Action Item Review
    • Getting issues...

Minutes

  • Approval of minutes
    • No comments - minutes approved
  • TAC meeting - Jan 30 
    • Discussion about infra across LFN 
      • Need to coordinate OPNFV effort with larger LFN effort 
      • A regular weekly LFN infra working group meeting has been established (Fridays at 8 a.m. Pacific)  
    • Discussion about the roles of chair and secretary 
    • TAC decided that the chair would be the board rep
  • Rescheduling of weekly technical discussion
    • Final decision is for Mondays at 7 a.m. 
    • Frank Brockners comments that this time slot conflicts with Panda meeting 
    • Also conflicts with CVC meeting 
    • Change will begin next week on Feb 11. We will still meet this week on Thurs, Feb 7. 
  • Termination reviews 
    • JOID
      • The TSC approves the proposal to terminate the JOID project
    • Bamboo
      • Trevor Bramwellcomments that there is a K8s cluster running in support of Bamboo 
      • Mark Beierl suggests adding a link to the Bamboo project page that points to Panda work in ONAP 
      • The TSC approves of the proposal to terminate the Bamboo project.
  • Code and Release Quality Improvement
    • The TSC agrees to start cleanup of inactive committers procedure by asking PTLs to update their list of committers for each project.
    • The TSC agrees to update committer removal procedure to include removing committers that have not accessed OPNFV gerrit for 12 months 
    • David McBrideto update procedure per agreement. Will open TSC JIRA.
    • Cristina Pauna says that ODL has a gerrit best practices page 
    • We will continue discussion about gerrit best practices in the weekly technical discussion. Specifically, should we enforce, or simply recommend against self-merges?
  • IT/Infra

Jan 29, 2019

Agenda

  • Approval of previous meeting minutes
  • Agenda bashing
  • Chair Report Bin Hu
    • Update on strategy discussion
    • Change of date for weekly technical discussion.
    • Update on Developer Event before ONS-NA
  • Booth demo discussion.
    • email request for proposals
    • Review etherpad submissions
    • Demo staffing (co-manager, presenters, need full-time booth support)
    • Selection process Brandon Wick
  • TAC representation. Bin Hu
  • Intern discussion. David McBride
  • Release update: David McBride
    • Gambia v7.2
    • Hunter MS3.1
  • LF IT/Infra update: Aric Gardner, Trevor Bramwell
  • Community Election procedure update
    • TSC-4 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    • Vote text: "Does the TSC approve the change to the community election procedure as described in TSC-4? (+1, 0, -1)"
  • Action Item Review
    • Getting issues...

Minutes

  • Approval of minutes
    • No comments - minutes approved
  • Update on strategy discussion 
  • Change to weekly technical discussion 
    • Bin Hu reviewed a proposal to move meeting to Monday.
    • The meeting will move to Mondays beginning Feb 10.
  • informal gathering before ONS 
    • LF has no budget to support a developer event, so Bin Hu is has proposed an informal gathering on April 2.
    • Details are TBD.  Bin Hu will update the TSC and the mailing list when he knows more.
  • Booth demo discussion 
    • etherpad
    • #22658  
    • Brandon Wick reviews booth demo proposal requirements
      • Submissions due by Feb 13 
      • Demo managers will need to get passes for themselves and their team.
      • Each demo manager should plan on a team in order to provide coverage at the booth for all open hours.
      • Preference is for "real world" use cases and those that are cross-project and/or include a carrier.
      • David McBride reminds proposal owners to respond to email from Brandon Wick in addition to etherpad documentation
    • VSPERF Demo (proposal #1) review
      • Sridhar says that the idea is to go beyond performance measurement and do causation analysis 
    • OpenStack rolling upgrade demo (proposal #2) review
    • LaaS demo (proposal #3) review
  • TAC representation 
    • #4967  
    • David McBride found that the charter already says that the TAC representative may be the TSC chair, or any other member of the TSC, as designated by the TSC.  So, no additional documentation of the TAC representative is necessary.
    • The TSC approves of the proposal that the TSC Chair will be the TAC representative 
  • Intern discussion 
    • David McBride says that we are limited to 3 interns this year, therefore, we will need to be more selective about which intern proposals get selected.
    • We will implement a plan to solicit, review, and select proposals.  Details will be presented to the TSC in the coming weeks.
  • Release update 
    • Gambia 7.2 went live on Monday, Jan 28 
    • Still reviewing status of Hunter MS3.1.  Tim Rozetreports that Apex is currently meeting those requirements.
  • IT/Infra update 
    • Jenkins upgrade on Weds, Jan 30 
    • Gerrit migration and system reboots to be scheduled for Feb 13th 
  • Community election procedure 
    • Note:  Last week,Cedric Ollivier requested more time to review the proposed change before today's vote, but then was unable to attend the meeting.  However, David McBride had an email exchange with Cedric before the meeting, who indicated that he had reviewed the change and would have voted to approve it, had he attended the meeting.
    • The TSC approves the change to the community election procedure as described in TSC-4.
  • Action item review
    • Reviewed one new action item:   TSC-13 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    • Closed three action items: TSC-2, TSC-4, and TSC-8.

Jan 22, 2019

Agenda

  • Approval of previous meeting minutes
  • Agenda bashing
  • Chair Report Bin Hu
    • No report this week.
  • Booth demo discussion.
  • Release update: David McBride
    • Gambia v7.2
    • Hunter MS3.1
  • LF IT/Infra update: Aric Gardner, Trevor Bramwell
  • Community Election procedure update
    • TSC-4 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    • Vote text: "Does the TSC approve the change to the community election procedure as described in TSC-4? (+1, 0, -1)"
  • Action Item Review
    • Getting issues...

Minutes

  • Approval of minutes
    • No comments - minutes approved
  • Booth Demo discussion 
    • Brandon Wick sent an email with info last week 
    • seeking demos that are endorsed by a service provider 
    • seeking demos with cross-project collaboration/content 
    • proposal should include a commitment from a specified demo manager 
    • proposal authors should respond to Brandon's email and document the proposal in the etherpad
  • Release Update 
    • Gambia 7.2 this week
      • download page will go live on Jan 29
    • Hunter MS3.1
      • Tim Rozet says that he's awaiting a patch that will allow Apex to meet MS3.1 requirements
  • IT/Infra update
    • Trevor Bramwell says that the plan is to upgrade Jenkins following the Gambia 7.2 release 
    • Gerrit migration put on hold pending further analysis on the best approach to complete the task 
    • Cedric Ollivier asks about updates to Python 3.6
    • Trevor Bramwell says that it depends on the OS status.  Trevor will look into the issue and get back to Cedric
  • Community election procedure
    • Vote deferred to next week to allow time for further review
  • Action Item Review
    • TSC-2 - Bin Hu will propose that the TSC chair be the TC representative. Will start email thread. 
    • David McBride to look into where TAC representation should be documented 
    • David McBride sats that TSC-8 may be resolved by resolution to TSC-4
  • AoB 
    • Manuel Buil requests change of day/time for weekly technical meeting 
    • Bin Hu to start email thread requesting feedback about proposal to move meeting to Mondays at 6 a.m. (PST) 

Jan 15, 2019

Agenda

  • Approval of previous meeting minutes
  • Agenda bashing
  • Chair Report Bin Hu
    • No report this week.
  • Marketing Update Brandon Wick
    • ONS North America - April 3 - 5
      • CFP for ONS - Jan 21
      • ONS NA will follow similar format to Amsterdam
      • Interest in OPNFV developer event at ONS NA?
  • Release update: David McBride
    • Gambia v7.2
    • Hunter MS3.1
  • LF IT/Infra update: Aric Gardner, Trevor Bramwell
    • Schedule of updates to be sent out this week:
      • Gerrit migration to Cloud
      • Jenkins Upgrade
  • Community Election procedure update
    • TSC-4 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    • Vote text: "Does the TSC approve the change to the community election procedure as described in TSC-4? (+1, 0, -1)"
  • Action Item Review
    • Getting issues...

Minutes

  • Approval of minutes
    • No comments - minutes approved
  • Marketing Update 
    • Brandon Wick shares a slide deck 
    • Notice of CFPs closing soon for KubeCon Europe and ONS North America. 
      • KubeCon CFP due Jan 18 
      • ONS NA CFP due Jan 21 
    • LFN reception has not yet been decided for KubeCon Europe 
    • ONS NA will have a similar format to last fall's ONS EU in Amsterdam 
    • Brandon Wick will start collecting ideas for demos at LFN booth on Jan 16
    • Bin Hu suggests an agenda item for the weekly discussion meeting and the next TSC meeting to discuss ideas for booth demos 
    • Qiao Fu asks about mini-summit at KubeCon. Brandon says that he will have more info after the MAC meets in the next week or two. 
    • David McBride suggests having Brandon Wick provide an update to the TSC after the MAC meets.
  • Release Update 
    • The TSC agrees to delay the release of Gambia 7.2 one week to Jan 25 
  • IT/Infra Update 
  • Community election procedure update 
  • Action Item Review
    • Closed TSC-7

Jan 8, 2019

Note:  In addition to the usual Zoom conference, we will have a F2F at PlugFest.

Agenda

Minutes

  • Approval of minutes
    • No comments - minutes approved
  • Agenda bashing
    • Frank Brockners requests a strategy planning update from Bin Hu.  Bin will include this in the chair report.
  • Chair Report
    • Bin Hu provides an update to the TSC on the strategy development.
      • Bin Hu says that the board provided feedback on OPNFV during presentation in December:
        • better alignment between TSC and marketing 
        • focus on OVP 
      • Bin Hu describes progress on strategy during weekly technical discussion meetings
      • Additional discussion took place during infra working group meeting in December
  • IT/Infra update
  • Release update
    • The requirements for Hunter 3.0 have been collapsed into MS3.1, which is scheduled for Jan 18 
    • Frank Brockners asks about progress on the new release process
      • Frank points out that projects have been making use of continuous release for nearly a year without a process
      • David McBride says that the Release Process Working Group has been making slow progress.
  • TSC Jira process(dmcbride, 15:07:03)
  • Action Item review(dmcbride, 15:08:01)
    • Closed TSC-12 as no longer relevant

Jan 1, 2019 (cancelled)







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