#opnfv-ovsnfv: Weekly Open vSwitch for NFV meeting (February 22nd 2016)

Meeting summary

1. 1. Billy O'Mahony (billyoma, 13:05:47)
   2. Mark Gray (mdgray, 13:05:54)
   3. Simona Coppola (Simona, 13:06:01)
   4. Tom Herbert (tfherbert, 13:07:04)
   5. Szilard Cserey (SzilardCserey, 13:07:11)
   
   
2. Release Update (mdgray, 13:07:19)
   1. For Fuel, the code is frozen. (mdgray, 13:07:40)
   2. Last week, a package was removed by Canonical from the Ubuntu repository which caused a failure. (mdgray, 13:08:39)
   3. New version of the package fixed this issue. (mdgray, 13:08:57)
   4. Passed locally but failed in CI as a dependency could not be resolved. CI needs to resolve all dependencies using offline repo. (mdgray, 13:10:23)
   5. Permanent fix has been posted at https://gerrit.opnfv.org/gerrit/#/c/9389/ but -1. Will need a better solution for C-release. (mdgray, 13:12:30)
   6. Alternative solution was proposed by Mirantis using Packages.yaml (mdgray, 13:12:55)
   7. Fuel@OPNFV don't want to introduce this change before B-release. (mdgray, 13:14:19)
   8. We are not getting cc'ed on CI failures but there is a RSS feed that can be subscribed (mdgray, 13:15:48)
   9. Fuel documentation. New format has been updated in our repo. (mdgray, 13:16:33)
   10. Link has been updated from the wiki (mdgray, 13:16:45)
   11. Looking for help from someone to review documentation to see if it is possible to install our code using this documentation (mdgray, 13:19:31)
   
   
3. RPM update (mdgray, 13:21:50)
   1. Patch to build OVS with DPDK rpm has been pushed (mdgray, 13:22:29)
   2. Builds use Copr (Fedora Pipeline) (mdgray, 13:24:01)
   3. https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/ (mdgray, 13:24:30)
   4. Some intermittent issues with DPDK download over the weekend (mdgray, 13:24:54)
   5. Seems to have been resolved (mdgray, 13:25:10)
   6. To relaunch build in gerrit .. post a comment with "reverify" (mdgray, 13:25:39)
   7. https://gerrit.opnfv.org/gerrit/#/c/10255/ (tfherbert, 13:26:35)
   8. Looking for help reviewing the above commit. (mdgray, 13:36:52)
   
   
4. C-Release Backlog (mdgray, 13:39:11)
   1. Discussion about OVS requirements. Jumping into solution space with this. (mdgray, 13:47:53)
   2. Good discussion .. finally getting to talk about the dataplane! (mdgray, 13:48:45)
   3. Need to work through these in subsequent meetings. Plan to add it to the agenda before the hackfest. (mdgray, 14:02:30)

Action items

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People present (lines said)

1. mdgray (32)
2. collabot` (5)
3. SzilardCserey (4)
4. billyoma (3)
5. tfherbert (2)
6. Simona (1)