[OpenAFS-devel] release-team meeting minutes 2015-08-06

[Stephan Wiesand]

Log: =
http://conference.openafs.org/release-team@conference.openafs.org/2015-08-=
05.html

Participants:

* Ben Kaduk
* Daria Brashear
* Jeffrey Altman
* Marc Dionne
* Mark Vitale
* Mike Meffie
* Stephan Wiesand

=3D=3D 1.6.14 release =3D=3D

1.6.14 will fix a vlserver regression introduced in 1.6.13. The =
capability to query the vldb by regular expression was removed under the =
assumption that it was unused, which turned out to be wrong. At least =
"backup" needs it if volumes are specified by regular expressions. The =
changes reverting the removal, fixing some obvious implementation issues =
and restricting use of the interface to superusers were merged on master =
during the meeting and pulled up shortly after:

* http://gerrit.openafs.org/11971
* http://gerrit.openafs.org/11975
* http://gerrit.openafs.org/11976

These need review. Please help.

It also was discussed what exactly is or might be broken due to this. =
Mark will draft a summary paragraph for the release notes and the =
announcement.

=3D=3D 1.6.14.1 release =3D=3D

1.6.14.1 will be dedicated to supporting clients on Linux 4.2 (and =
probably soon distribution kernels with backports of the changes =
breaking us). Linux 4.2 is at -rc5, and the release expected within ~ 2 =
weeks. The essential changes are available in gerrit for the 1.6 branch =
already:

* http://gerrit.openafs.org/11948
* http://gerrit.openafs.org/11949
* http://gerrit.openafs.org/11951

Along with two supporting changes:

* http://gerrit.openafs.org/11933
* http://gerrit.openafs.org/11950

All except 11933 had no review at all. Please help.

There's also an ongoing discussion on a change still not merged on =
master:

* http://gerrit.openafs.org/11945

Without it, lookups in AFS will fail for paths with more than 40 =
directory components (41 to 80 if the first n-40 dirs are already =
cached) on Linux 4.2+. But there's a chance it may reintroduce issues =
that were fixed by http://gerrit.openafs.org/7951 . Mark will contact =
Andrew Deason (author of 7951) about the change.

=3D=3D Schedule =3D=3D

* a.s.a.p. (hopefully this week): 1.6.14
* as soon as Linux 4.2 is [very likely to be] final (hopefully next =
week): 1.6.14.1
* next week: probably last meeting for a while (=3Dsummer?)
 * the week after is the Pittsburgh workshop (and the start of the =
release manager's vacation)