#opnfv-ovsnfv: Weekly Open vSwitch for NFV meeting (14th September 2015)

Meeting summary

1. Roll Call (mdgray, 13:01:07)
   1. Mark Gray (mdgray, 13:01:19)
   2. gdunne (gdunne, 13:03:07)
   3. tfherbert: here (tfherbert, 13:03:35)
   4. sriramr here (sriramr, 13:04:01)
   5. Al Morton (acm, 13:05:28)
   
   
2. Agenda (and continued roll call) (mdgray, 13:05:39)
   1. Jira Epics (mdgray, 13:06:09)
   2. Genesis Proposal (mdgray, 13:06:17)
   3. installers and RDO (tfherbert, 13:06:36)
   4. Welcome new members (mdgray, 13:06:43)
   5. Meeting IRC only? (mdgray, 13:07:04)
   6. Gabor status update (mdgray, 13:07:55)
   
   
3. Welcome new members (mdgray, 13:08:25)
   1. welcome everyone! (tfherbert, 13:08:44)
   
   
4. Meeting IRC only? (mdgray, 13:08:56)
   1. voice meeting is useful. Folks have option of just "talking" on IRC. (tfherbert, 13:09:29)
   2. I'd have a preference for voice meetings (mdgray, 13:09:51)
   3. +1 for voice meetings. (tfherbert, 13:10:04)
   4. AGREED: Continue with voice meetings. (mdgray, 13:10:11)
   
   
5. Jira Epics (mdgray, 13:10:29)
   1. goto jira.opnfv.org/browse/OVSNFV (tfherbert, 13:14:39)
   2. , https://jira.opnfv.org/browse/OVSNFV/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:summary-panel (tfherbert, 13:15:25)
   3. , with help of Linux Foundation staff who did the "real" work. (tfherbert, 13:16:47)
   4. it is an excellent start mdgray: (tfherbert, 13:22:10)
   5. Comment: Add interaction with vsperf. (tfherbert, 13:23:32)
   6. Al will bring back details about vsperf integration. (tfherbert, 13:26:41)
   7. Will look at RDO installer. RDO is a requirement for B release. (tfherbert, 13:31:07)
   8. several volunteers to add detail to Jira epics. (tfherbert, 13:31:33)
   9. Gillian OVSNFV-1 (mdgray, 13:31:51)
   10. Gabor OVSNFV-2 (mdgray, 13:31:59)
   11. mdgray scope OVSNFV-4 (mdgray, 13:32:09)
   12. sriram expressed interest in OVSNFV-3 (mdgray, 13:32:44)
   
   
6. Genesis Request (mdgray, 13:33:06)
   1. Draft sent out to [ovsnfv] (mdgray, 13:34:17)
   2. will be reviewed at genesis meeting today (mdgray, 13:34:27)
   3. some installers will do source installations (mdgray, 13:35:08)
   4. Doing study for OVSNFV-3, trying to understand the impact of a pure Userspace ovs (sriramr, 13:35:18)
   5. we want to start with binary (mdgray, 13:35:46)
   6. we still don't have a spec file upstreamed (mdgray, 13:37:23)
   7. spec file should work on centos (mdgray, 13:37:49)
   8. tom will reply to thread on mailing list (mdgray, 13:38:03)
   9. I'll try that out. I did'nt get this "binary" part. You mean an ovs without openvswitch.ko ? (sriramr, 13:38:27)
   10. wait and see approach. (mdgray, 13:38:32)
   11. binary = .rpm (mdgray, 13:38:45)
   12. rather than pull from source (mdgray, 13:38:58)
   13. Ok. (sriramr, 13:39:21)
   
   
7. installers and RDO (mdgray, 13:39:28)
   1. Tom's understanding is that RDO is a requirement for Brahmaputra (mdgray, 13:39:57)
   2. So we need to work with upstream and RDO community to enable userspace ovs (mdgray, 13:40:55)
   3. They understand that it is important (mdgray, 13:41:26)
   4. We have a clear procedure for Fuel to do what we want to do. Tom will try and get the same for RDO. (mdgray, 13:42:40)
   5. Tom to send link of RDO (its another installer) (mdgray, 13:44:57)
   6. RDO: https://www.rdoproject.org/Main_Page (tfherbert, 13:45:01)
   
   
8. Other? (mdgray, 13:45:34)
   1. Mark is on vacation? Any volunteers to chair? (mdgray, 13:46:26)
   2. Tom or Billy will chair. They can discuss amongst yourselves. (mdgray, 13:47:27)
   3. tfherbert: can chair next week or following week. (tfherbert, 13:47:29)
   4. Will work it out with Billy. (tfherbert, 13:47:55)
   5. Mark and Tom are in Linuxcon in Dublin and DPDK userspace. If anyone is around, let us know. (mdgray, 13:48:13)

Action items

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People present (lines said)

1. mdgray (41)
2. tfherbert (16)
3. sriramr (4)
4. collabot (3)
5. gdunne (1)
6. acm (1)