[OpenAFS-devel] release-team meeting minutes 2013-10-23

[Stephan Wiesand]

Log: =
http://conference.openafs.org/release-team@conference.openafs.org/2013-10-=
23.txt

=3D=3D Attendance =3D=3D

* Andrew Deason
* Ben Kaduk
* Derrick Brashear
* Marc Dionne
* Mike Meffie
* Stephan Wiesand

=3D=3D 1.6.5.1 =3D=3D

Since binaries are now available for four additional platforms (AIX, =
RHEL5/6, F18), it's worthwhile updating the release pages and sending =
out an announcement. Derrick merged 10348 and brought the change live on =
www.openafs.org during the meeting. Stephan to send the announcement to =
openafs-announce.

=3D=3D 1.6.6 =3D=3D

=3D=3D=3D Linux kernels =3D=3D=3D

Marc tested against the current state of 3.12 development, and we're =
still ok. He also quotes information making it seem likely that 3.12 =
will be released within "about a week". Barring a last minute change =
affecting the OpenAFS client, this means that 1.6.5.1 should work with =
3.12. Thus, no pressure to get 1.6.6 out in order to support the latest =
Linux kernel.

=3D=3D=3D Parallel build issues =3D=3D=3D

It was agreed to revert 10310 since it causes significant failure rates, =
even though the change itself is quite possibly correct. 10337 will be =
merged afterwards, and Ben points out that it's actually required to =
build on FreeBSD.

=3D=3D=3D RT #131749 =3D=3D=3D

Probably a real bug, but introduced in 2008 and affects pthreaded vos =
only, which is not the default. Not a blocker for 1.6.6pre1.

=3D=3D=3D Client panic reports on openafs-info and in RT #131747 =3D=3D=3D=


According to Andrew, these panics are due to changes introduced with the =
1.6.2 release which make the client panic rather than delivering bogus =
data when an error occurs while reading from the cache. The assumed =
reason for this happening is lack of signal handling. The stack of =
changes starting at gerrit 10354 should address at least the reported =
cases and is in use on at least one site hitting this problem =
frequently, especially on EL6. It was agreed that we'd like to include =
this stack in the 1.6.6 release after careful review (help needed).

=3D=3D=3D BSD fixes =3D=3D=3D

Ben would like to get 10340 and 10339 (not yet accepted on master) into =
1.6.6. They're supposed to affect *BSD only, but touch files not =
exclusively used by those platforms. But if ready in time, including =
them seems reasonable.

=3D=3D=3D Release notes =3D=3D=3D

A first draft is available in gerrit 10359. Help is needed to polish it =
and fill in some gaps.

=3D=3D Buildbot master work =3D=3D

Jason, Andrew and Mike have been working on upgrading the buildbot =
master. Deploying this right after the 1.6.6pre1 release seems to be the =
right timing.

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Stephan Wiesand
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