==================================== #opnfv-meeting: OPNFV TSC 2019-11-05 ==================================== Meeting started by bh526r at 14:00:05 UTC. The full logs are available at http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/opnfv-meeting/2019/opnfv-meeting.2019-11-05-14.00.log.html . Meeting summary --------------- * Roll Call (bh526r, 14:00:16) * Bin Hu (bh526r, 14:00:24) * Parker Berberian (pberberian, 14:00:32) * Cristina Pauna (irc only) (CristinaPauna, 14:01:02) * Georg Kunz (georgk, 14:01:49) * Al Morton (acmacm, 14:01:53) * Sridhar (SRao, 14:03:58) * Qiao Fu (bh526r, 14:04:09) * Frank Brockners (frankbrockners, 14:04:21) * Approval of Prior Meeting Minutes (bh526r, 14:07:16) * No comments (bh526r, 14:07:36) * AGREED: Prior meeting minutes is approved (bh526r, 14:07:50) * Agenda Bashing (bh526r, 14:08:51) * Agenda approved (bh526r, 14:08:59) * Chair Report (bh526r, 14:09:08) * Panagiotis Karalis (IRC only) (pkaralis, 14:09:11) * No chair report today (bh526r, 14:09:19) * Trevor Cooper (trevor_intel, 14:09:24) * SPC Update (bh526r, 14:09:31) * No update (bh526r, 14:10:23) * CNTT in OPNFV Update (bh526r, 14:10:45) * Sridhar summarized that CNTT RI is deployed in Pod 10 with Airship installer (bh526r, 14:11:17) * DPPD-PROX: Currently part of OPNFV-SAMPLEVNF (SRao, 14:12:11) * Trevor C described the automation environment and starting to collect result. (bh526r, 14:12:35) * PROX will be used to emulate network intensive workload. (SRao, 14:12:42) * Just a proof of concept. PROX is a VNF, not commercial VNF. (bh526r, 14:14:34) * Mike F said that in addition to performance characteristics, we also focused on automation. (bh526r, 14:15:26) * Sridhar asked what is the plan for Pod 15? (bh526r, 14:16:06) * Mike F said we need to check the s/w deployment in Pod 10 matches manifest of RM+RA (bh526r, 14:16:41) * Jim asked if manifest validation automated too? (bh526r, 14:17:14) * Mike F said it would be discussed tomorrow regarding validation automation. (bh526r, 14:17:58) * Qiao Fu summarized the collaboration with Infra WG. (bh526r, 14:18:36) * China Mobile generated description files from CNTT side (bh526r, 14:19:03) * and will discuss with Infra WG soon (bh526r, 14:19:17) * Jim asked if there is any blocking issue (bh526r, 14:20:36) * Bin mentioned Cedric's email regarding 2 additional servers for FuncTest (bh526r, 14:22:06) * Mark Cottrell mentioned that CNTT needs OPNFV's help for the staffing needs that Qiao mentioned (bh526r, 14:23:16) * Qiao worried that resources are split into small groups/tasks (bh526r, 14:24:06) * Mark C asked how to steer and focus resources from OPNFV and LFN leadership perspective (bh526r, 14:26:06) * Heather suggested to list the big things of dependencies, and see what are the gaps of resources (bh526r, 14:29:45) * Jack M suggested that what Qiao asked for is the strategic prioritization and organization. (bh526r, 14:34:22) * Not only Infra WG but also all other projects, (bh526r, 14:34:54) * we need more doers than talkers (bh526r, 14:35:07) * Jonathan B mentioned the planning of PlugFest, and we did mention the atomic level to get more developers (bh526r, 14:37:52) * Frank mentioned that if we want to pull more developers in, we focused a lot on what, but less on how, and we need to ask more resources from companies. (bh526r, 14:39:30) * It comes down to re-create business pitch, motivate companies, and pull resources (bh526r, 14:40:26) * So explain value proposition to upper level management (bh526r, 14:40:57) * Build a pitch that works for vendors (bh526r, 14:41:16) * Mark C also suggested that CNTT already created business case, and can help build business pitch. (bh526r, 14:43:32) * But don't from scratch. CNTT can help, but not from ground 0 (bh526r, 14:44:01) * Correction of the statement that Bin wrote down about what I said: I said "Focus on the Why (Business reason) along with the What" - "how" is follow-up step (frankbrockners, 14:47:49) * Georg K mentioned that the process of getting developers back again, it takes some time. From investment perspective, turning around takes time and effort (bh526r, 14:48:22) * Jack M suggested a session in DDF to create business pitch for vendors to communicate with their upper management to invest more resources in OPNFV (bh526r, 14:50:57) * Heather asked Mike F and Qiao F what are the central things that we can attract more developers to DDF? Hacking-oriented type of activities, hands-on activities, very deep technical activities that can be accomplished to help get more developers to participate in DDF. (bh526r, 14:54:23) * design work and coding work (bh526r, 14:55:31) * Al mentioned OPNFV is developer community, and ultimately developers should participate in PlugFest/DDF (bh526r, 15:01:39) * Heather suggested that Rabi, Qiao and Al draft the paragraph so that vendors can communicate with management. (bh526r, 15:03:44) * ACTION: Heather will work with CNTT (Jonathan etc.) for the draft of message. Jonathan agreed. (bh526r, 15:07:18) * AOB (bh526r, 15:08:47) * None. Meeting adjourned (bh526r, 15:08:56) Meeting ended at 15:08:59 UTC. People present (lines said) --------------------------- * bh526r (54) * SRao (3) * collabot (3) * frankbrockners (2) * pberberian (1) * trevor_intel (1) * georgk (1) * acmacm (1) * CristinaPauna (1) * pkaralis (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4