[OpenAFS-devel] release-team meeting minutes 2014-01-15

[Stephan Wiesand]

Log: =
http://conference.openafs.org/release-team@conference.openafs.org/2014-01-=
15.txt

Participants:

* Andrew Deason
* Ben Kaduk
* Derrick Brashear
* Jeffrey Altman
* Mike Meffie
* Stephan Wiesand

The only major topic was the 1.6.6 release.

=3D=3D Timing =3D=3D

We expect Linux 3.13 to be released this weekend. We're planning to =
release OpenAFS 1.6.6 immediately after that has happened, assuming that =
no last minute Linux changes require more work on our side.

Preliminary tarballs will be prepared a.s.a.p., and binary builds not =
depending on the tag could then start.

=3D=3D Changes to include =3D=3D

=3D=3D=3D Enable RPM builds on Fedora 20 and RHEL 7: =3D=3D=3D

10703	RedHat: support building on ELRepo kernels
10704	RedHat: Fix specfile changelog
10619	RedHat: Munge future kernel versions
10622	Fedora: Handle new kernel variant paths

RHEL7 builds will still ship sysvinit scripts rather than systemd unit =
files, since gerrit 10631 won't make it.

=3D=3D=3D Revert the "server side NAT pings" feature: =3D=3D=3D=20

Prerelease testing hasn't produced any evidence that it actually helps, =
while it would cause additional network traffic.

10135   Revert "viced: Enable NAT ping on hosts"

=3D=3D=3D Doc fixes and routine changes: =3D=3D=3D

10597	rx: Remove obsolete comment
10601	doc: fix a nit in fs_newalias.pod
10330	Make OpenAFS 1.6.6
tbd	Update NEWS for 1.6.6

=3D=3D=3D Binaries =3D=3D=3D

We hope for Red Hat and SuSE Linux builds from the usual sources =
(Stephen and Christof). As for the previous 1.6 releases, Ben plans to =
contribute FreeBSD builds and Andrew & Mike plan to contribute Solaris =
ones.

No binaries for any OS X release were available for pre1 and pre2, and =
noone is planning to provide them for the final 1.6.6. The most serious =
problem still seems to be the creation of an installer for OS X 10.9.

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Stephan Wiesand
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15738 Zeuthen, Germany