#opnfv-ovsnfv: Weekly Open vSwitch for NFV meeting (January 11th 2015)

Meeting summary

1. 1. Tom Herbert (tfherbert, 13:03:45)
   
   
2. Roll Call (mdgray, 13:03:47)
   1. Mark Gray (mdgray, 13:03:51)
   2. Billy O'Mahony (billyoma, 13:04:01)
   3. https://etherpad.opnfv.org/p/ovsnfv-meet (mdgray, 13:04:12)
   
   
3. Governance (mdgray, 13:04:45)
   1. We need to define a governance model for the next release (mdgray, 13:06:34)
   2. e.g. In vsperf, they need 2 x +1, one of which must be from outside your organization. Although vsperf has more committer. If it is in review for a week without any comments, then a committer can push change. (mdgray, 13:08:14)
   3. We need to add this to our backlog of things to address for C-release. (mdgray, 13:09:36)
   
   
4. Release (mdgray, 13:11:01)
   1. Tom notes that there is inadequate documentation for the ovsnfnv fuel deployment (mdgray, 13:11:31)
   2. General agreement on this. We will address this at the January 19th documentation release. (mdgray, 13:12:08)
   3. Code branched last Tuesday. Branch stable/brahmaputra (mdgray, 13:12:41)
   4. Now we make commits to "master" and cherry-pick to "stable/brahmaputra" (mdgray, 13:13:52)
   5. https://wiki.opnfv.org/releases/stablebranch?s[]=stable (mdgray, 13:14:21)
   6. Details above. (mdgray, 13:14:25)
   7. WP4 is due Friday - Hard code freeze and rebased to Fuel 8/Liberty (mdgray, 13:21:10)
   8. https://wiki.opnfv.org/releases/brahmaputra/release_plan#milestone_definitions (billyoma, 13:21:25)
   9. Next Brahmaputra milestone appears to the release Feb 2 (mdgray, 13:21:30)
   10. There does not seem to be another Milestone for Apex (mdgray, 13:22:22)
   
   
5. RPM development update (mdgray, 13:23:01)
   1. Tom is focusing on NSH rather than userspace enablement for Apex as it is more urgent for SFC. (mdgray, 13:23:41)
   2. This package will upstreamed to the artifactory. (mdgray, 13:25:41)
   3. Some limited testing will be done on this (mdgray, 13:26:22)
   4. Next step will be OVS-DPDK (mdgray, 13:26:55)
   5. Tom is happy to have anyone review some scripts. (mdgray, 13:28:12)
   
   
6. Fuel dev update (mdgray, 13:36:02)
   1. Plugin builds and deploys the correct version of ovs/dpdk and soon qemu (just running deploy now) (mdgray, 13:36:26)
   2. This is all on Kilo and Fuel 7 (mdgray, 13:36:51)
   3. Next step is to rebase onto Fuel 8/Liberty (mdgray, 13:37:04)
   4. We have some concerns about the stability of Fuel 8/Liberty. (mdgray, 13:37:26)
   5. deploy.sh in Fuel is not working with Fuel 8 (mdgray, 13:37:34)
   6. Code freeze is high risk (mdgray, 13:38:10)
   7. URL to pritesh V8 NSH patch: https://github.com/priteshk/ovs.git (tfherbert, 13:38:37)
   8. As we understand, testing will be done as part of a Fuel scenario (mdgray, 13:39:09)

Action items

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People present (lines said)

1. mdgray (34)
2. billyoma (8)
3. collabot` (3)
4. tfherbert (2)