[OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS release team weekly meeting

[Michael Meffie]

OpenAFS release team weekly meeting
Date: Apr 03, 2020
Participants:
- Stephan Wiesand, Release Manager
- Benjamin Kaduk
- Yadayadav
- Cheyenne Wills
- Michael Meffie

The weekly release team meetings are held on Fridays at 16:00 UTC (12:00 EDT)
in release-team@conference.openafs.org on jabber. Please request login
information if you would like to participate. Logs are available at:

    https://conference.openafs.org/release-team@conference.openafs.org/

NEWS
====

* As announced by the OpenAFS Foundation, the 2020 AFS Technologies Workshop
  has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 crisis. Please stay safe everyone.


1.8.x series
============

* The Release Team asks developers to refrain from pushing non-critical patches
  to the openafs-stable-1_8_x branch on gerrit.openafs.org until the 1.8.6
  release has been finalized.

* Reviews of NEWS for 1.8.6pre2 in progress.

* No new critical patches for 1.8.x at this time.

* Stephan reports he testing the client on the EL7.8 kernel released this
  week; smoke tests passed.

* If all goes well, Stephan hopes to make the 1.8.6pre2 announcement this
  weekend.

1.6.x series
============

* The next 1.6.x pre-release has been deferred until the 1.8.6 release has been
  finalized.

1.9.x/master
============

* Ben has updated the NEWS for 1.9.0

* We need to have a bit of writeup for how to get started with the rxgk bits.

* Cheyenne reports clean builds on linux 5.6.0 with master and
  openafs-stable-1_8_x

* Recent master patches under review:
  - various commits to support gcc 10 and clang 10
  - volscan performance improvements
  - ubik-read-during-recovery patches have been updated
  - various rpm packaging clean-ups and new "make rpm" target

Buildbot
========

* New aarch64 nightly builder has been added: opensuse15-arm64
  Thanks to Christof Hanke and Cheyenne Wills for assists.


Patches
=======

Recently submitted for branch 'openafs-stable-1_8_x':

14130 LINUX: Include linux/time.h for linux/errqueue.h

Recently merged onto branch 'openafs-stable-1_8_x':

14095 17d38e31e6 LINUX 5.6: define time_t and use timespec/timespec64
14094 355ea43f0d LINUX: Avoid building rand-fortuna-kernel.o

Recently submitted for branch 'master':

14131 autoconf: import check compile flag macro
14132 cf: Use common autoconf macro to test compiler flags
14125 Cleanup add more 'fall through' switch comments
14122 opr: Allow non-2^x for n_buckets in opr_cache_init
14128 butc: rename local var tapeblocks to numTapeblocks
14117 build: remove unused LINUX_PKGREL from configure.ac
14119 redhat: add make to the build requirements
14118 redhat: fix rpmbuild warnings
14127 vos: Print "done" in non-verbose 'vos remsite'
14126 vos: Properly print volume transaction flags
14124 opr: Add more 'fall through' switch comments
14121 vol-info: mmap vnodes to improve performance
14120 vol-info: store vnode index handles in globals

Recently merged onto branch 'master':

14128 80edcab999 butc: rename local var tapeblocks to numTapeblocks
14117 8ae4531c57 build: remove unused LINUX_PKGREL from configure.ac
14127 f16d40ad26 vos: Print "done" in non-verbose 'vos remsite'
14106 0e2072ae38 Avoid duplicate definitions of globals
14126 f841c189a5 vos: Properly print volume transaction flags
13721 4c4fb6e366 LINUX: Introduce afs_d_path
13301 252b3bcc75 afs: Detect VIOCPREFETCH special case properly
14109 66d0f91791 tests: Wait for server start in auth/superuser-t
14108 18a0ea2f31 LINUX: Clear lock 'pid' fields with NULL
14107 abbadd3f4b rxgen: Properly generate brief union default arm
14043 8c33518211 ubik: death to SVOTE_GetSyncSite
14102 d369f4e5c9 tests: Add cache-t to .gitignore in tests/opr
14101 59fef92683 tests: Add core to .gitignore in tests
14066 32d35db640 vos: take RO volume offline during convertROtoRW
14065 957b06984b vol: fix namei_ConvertROtoRWvolume return code
14092 38d78e2496 afs: Clean up compiler warning casting ptr to int
14098 57b4f4f9be LINUX: Properly revert creds in osi_UFSTruncate
14073 a0071a30d5 tests: Run more manpage tests by default
13864 e06b47fc0e ubik: Rename flags to dbFlags
13863 e68109013d ubik: Clarify UBIK_VERSION_LOCK semantics
13950 086d185872 LINUX: Include linux/time.h for linux/errqueue.h
13862 660a0855bb ubik: Log urecovery_CheckTid-aborted txes
13987 091e8e9ca5 ubik: Introduce ubik_CallRock
14083 78049987aa LINUX 5.6: define time_t and use timespec/timespec64
14084 b8088b49de LINUX: Avoid building rand-fortuna-kernel.o

-- 
Michael Meffie <mmeffie@sinenomine.net>