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#fdio-csit: FD.io CSIT project meeting
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Meeting started by mackonstan at 15:00:07 UTC.  The full logs are
available at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/fdio-csit/2020/fd_io_csit_project_meeting/fdio-csit-fd_io_csit_project_meeting.2020-12-09-15.00.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Jan Gelety  (jgelety, 15:00:13)
* Agenda bashing  (mackonstan, 15:00:26)
  * Vratko Polak.  (vrpolak, 15:00:30)
  * Tibor Frank  (tifrank, 15:01:00)
  * Maciek: would like to add two topics: i) jenkins configuration
    transparency; ii) physical DCs (YUL-1, YUL-2) move and consolidation
    into one physical DC location as proposed by Vexxhost (deadline
    15-March-2021).  (mackonstan, 15:01:48)
  * Dave Wallace  (dwallacelf, 15:02:30)

* Inputs from projects - VPP  (mackonstan, 15:08:03)
  * F0 milestone classified as a no-op, will be removed from the next
    release  (mackonstan, 15:09:26)

* Inputs from projects - TSC  (mackonstan, 15:10:02)

* Releases - CSIT-2101  (mackonstan, 15:11:24)
  * LINK: https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit2101_plan  (mackonstan,
    15:11:39)
  * Vratko, working on improving / enhancing nat44ed astf pps throughput
    tests  (mackonstan, 15:14:05)
  * Jan, re geneve perf tests, should be able to correct uncovered
    issues by RC1 date  (mackonstan, 15:14:54)
  * Juraj, re Arm items, not expecting any delays, all phy lab infra
    tasks got completed  (mackonstan, 15:16:18)

* Physical Infrastructure  (mackonstan, 15:16:35)
  * Juraj, mgmt switch will be procured so no more issues expected
    (mackonstan, 15:17:03)
  * Maciek, physical DCs (YUL-1, YUL-2) move and consolidation into one
    physical DC location as proposed by Vexxhost (deadline
    15-March-2021).  (mackonstan, 15:23:08)
  * Andrew, if we have a visibility and influence on the move schedule,
    then we should aim for hitless move  (mackonstan, 15:24:06)
  * Dave, agrees with Andrew, collocation stuff is good, chance to
    complete the cleanup  (mackonstan, 15:26:33)

* Virtual Infrastructure, CI/CD  (mackonstan, 15:27:57)
  * Vanessa, since Monday, every morning, Jenkins UI becomes
    unresponsive, getting 500 errors  (mackonstan, 15:28:31)
  * Vanessa, keep comparing FD.io instance vs. ODAP and XXXX instances
    that have 4x number of jobs, and keep increasing scale params in
    FD.io instanc  (mackonstan, 15:29:08)
  * Vanessa, yesterday upgraded monitoring plugins, and everything was
    running good yday  (mackonstan, 15:29:29)
  * Vanessa, unfortunately still the issue was observed this morning
    (mackonstan, 15:29:47)
  * Vanessa, side issue discovered was a buggy gerrit trigger plugin,
    upgraded to by mistake, now reverted to previous version
    (mackonstan, 15:30:23)
  * Vanessa, one observation, RF plugin is killing the CPU util and
    eating lots of memory … could this be a cause of Jenkins UI issues
    (mackonstan, 15:31:32)
  * Bug tracking Jenkins system:
    https://jira.linuxfoundation.org/browse/RELENG-3325  (mackonstan,
    15:32:29)
  * LINK: https://jira.linuxfoundation.org/browse/RELENG-3325
    (mackonstan, 15:32:49)
  * Vanessa Q: can the RF plugin be disabled temporarily?  (mackonstan,
    15:37:06)
  * 6+1 committers/contributors answered: yes, nobody against, so let's
    go ahead.  (mackonstan, 15:37:45)
  * Vanessa, going ahead then.  (mackonstan, 15:38:21)
  * Vanessa, see the following error in logs, in thousands "error
    javax.imageio.IIOException: I/O error writing PNG file!"
    (mackonstan, 15:40:59)
  * Maciek's new topic: jenkins configuration transparency  (mackonstan,
    15:41:54)
  * Vanessa, Jenkins moving to jcasc configuration, see this patch for
    details  (mackonstan, 15:45:28)
  * LINK: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/ci-management/+/30100  (mackonstan,
    15:45:31)
  * Vanessa, all startup and runtime configuration is covered, minus
    credentials  (mackonstan, 15:46:56)
  * Vanessa, some global and cloud variables are also excluded
    (mackonstan, 15:47:15)
  * LINK: https://git.fd.io/ci-management/tree/jenkins-config
    (mackonstan, 15:47:31)
  * Dave, patch 30100 went thru initial reviews by Dave, Vratko, Peter,
    but more reviews pending  (mackonstan, 15:48:55)
  * Migration from Nexus to S3  (mackonstan, 15:49:25)
  * Vanessa, working on logs  (mackonstan, 15:49:33)
  * Vanessa, ETA in 2021  (mackonstan, 15:49:41)
  * Vanessa, will also be moving to different Vexxhost VM flavour for
    Jenkins executors  (mackonstan, 15:51:30)
  * Juraj, VPP device jobs, arm thunderx2 jobs are still unstable, due
    to intermittent AVF issue - firmware or i40e driver  (mackonstan,
    15:52:23)
  * see email thread  (mackonstan, 15:54:05)
  * Juraj, in the meantime see if a w/a can be implemented  (mackonstan,
    15:55:07)
  * Vratko Update on PAPI socket connection  (dwallacelf, 15:58:56)
  * Vratko added GPL license checker for CSIT tox job  (dwallacelf,
    15:59:17)
  * No issues to be discussed  (dwallacelf, 16:00:04)
  * Already discussed in release topics  (dwallacelf, 16:00:50)
  * ACTION: Andrew to investigate process for deactivating fdio-yul
    users  (dwallacelf, 16:04:02)



Meeting ended at 16:05:20 UTC.



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