[OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS release team weekly meeting

[Michael Meffie]

OpenAFS release team weekly meeting
Date: Apr 17, 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 ED=
T)
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
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1.8.x series
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* The Release Team asks developers to refrain from pushing non-critical pat=
ches
  to the openafs-stable-1_8_x branch on gerrit.openafs.org until the 1.8.6
  release has been finalized.

* a9e26acf742cf49e2a773ffbb3f4f62a334950c tagged as openafs-stable-1_8_6pre2

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

1.9.x/master
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* Cheyenne reports he is investigating a build failure on linux 5.7rc1

Buildbot
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* Old windows 7 builders replaced by new windows server 2019 builders.
  - Thank you Alejandro R. Sede=F1o and MIT

* New Solaris 11.4 builder added.


Patches
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Recently submitted for branch 'master':

14149 make-release: remove unused optional version argument
14148 make-release: clean up whitespace and spelling
14152 make-tarballs: add --chdir to support out of tree builds
14151 build-tools: introduce make-tarballs
14150 make-release: run git describe once
14147 LINUX: Always crref after _settok_setParentPag
14146 LINUX: Copy session keys to parent in SetToken
14144 tests: Run perl via 'env'
14145 tests: Skip SIGBUS test on FreeBSD
14143 FBSD: Remove unused 'wantparent' logic

Recently merged onto branch 'master':

14119 be50d9a517 redhat: add make to the build requirements
14139 7e41ee0bd5 vlserver: Correctly pad nvlentry for "O" RPCs
14118 30a47c3282 redhat: fix rpmbuild warnings
14122 19524a49d4 opr: Allow non-2^x for n_buckets in opr_cache_init
14137 3db8c37e8e libafs: Serialize INSTDIRS/DESTDIRS and COMPDIRS

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Michael Meffie <mmeffie@sinenomine.net>